OTHER PONTIFIC AL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAY 14, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father nominated Fr. Joseph Roduit of the Regular Canons of the Swiss Congregation of Saint-Maurice as ordinary abbot of the territorial abbey of Saint-Maurice (area 100, population 6,574, Catholics 5,881, priests 77, religious 147), Switzerland. The abbot-elect was born in Saillon, Switzerland in 1939, was ordained a priest in 1965 and since 1994 he has been master of novices in the same monastery.
On Thursday, May 13, it was made public that the Holy Father appointed Cardinal Joachim Meisner, archbishop of Cologne, Germany, as his special envoy at the consecration ceremony of the new parish church in Astana, Kazakhstan, which will take place June 25 1999.

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