AMERICA/PERU - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of Yurimaguas and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator

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Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 17 December 2016 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Apostolic Vicariate of Yurimaguas (Peru), by His Exc. Mgr. José Luis Astigarraga Lizarralde, C.P., and appointed Fr. Jesús María Aristín Seco, C.P., currently Secretary General of the PP. Passionists in Rome as Apostolic Administrator for the sede vacant et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of the same Vicariate. (SL) (Agenzia Fides 20/12/2016)