CM Appointed First Bishop of New Diocese

Bishop Ladislau Biernaski C.M., auxiliary of Curitiba, as first bishop of the new diocese.- Erected the new diocese of Sao Jose dos Pinhais (area 7,172, population 649,556, Catholics 497,454, priests 58, religious 165), Brazil, with territory taken from the archdiocese of Curitiba, making it a suffragan of the same metropolitan church. He appointed Bishop Ladislau Biernaski C.M., auxiliary of Curitiba, as first bishop of the new diocese.