OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, OCT 5, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father gave his blessing to the election by the Synod of Bishops of the Syrian-Catholic Church of Fr. Georges El-Kass Moussa as archbishop of Mossul of the Syrian-Catholics (Catholics 29,000, priests 19, religious 17), Iraq. The archbishop-elect was born in Karakoche, Iraq, in 1938 and ordained a priest in 1962. He succeeds Archbishop Cyrille Emmanuel Benni, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese had been accepted by the synod on June 28 1996, upon his having reached the age limit.

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