The Holy Father appointed Bishop Anton Stres, C.M., of Celje, Slovenia, Coadjutor Archbishop of Maribor (area 3,682, population 419,870, Catholics 356,980, priests 208, permanent deacons 3, religious 130), Slovenia. The archbishop-elect was born in Donacka Goa, Slovenia, in 1942, he was ordained a priest in 1968, and consecrated a bishop in 2000.