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  • Bshp Nechan Karakeheyan Ordinary for Armenian Catholics of E. Europe

    VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
    HOLY SEE PRESS OFFICE
    V.I.S.

    04.02.2005
    Fifteenth Year  - N.60

    OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

    VATICAN CITY, APR 2, 2005 (VIS) -

    Over the course of the last few weeks the Holy Father has adopted a number
    of provisions that can only be made public today. He:

    - Appointed Bishop Nechan Karakeheyan, of Ispahan of the Armenians, Iran,
    as Ordinary for Armenian Catholics of Eastern Europe, at the same time
    assigning him the title of Archbishop "ad personam." He succeeds Archbishop
    Nerses Der Nersessian C.M.A., whose resignation from the same office was
    accepted by the Holy Father in accordance with Canon 210 of the Code of
    Canons of the Eastern Churches. He also accepted the resignation from the
    position of coadjutor of the same Ordinariate presented by Archbishop Vartan
    Kechichian, in accordance with Canons 218 and 210 of the Code of Canons of
    the Eastern Churches.

    NEA:NA:RE:NEC/.../...              VIS 050402 (500)

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    part or in their entirety, by quoting the source:
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