OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, DEC 29, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father gave his blessing to the election by the Synod of Bishops of the Syrian-Catholic Church, meeting at Charfe, Lebanon, on May 8, 1999, of Fr. Georges Kassab, patriarchal administrator of Homs of the Syrians (Catholics 10,000, priests 15, religious 2), Syria, as archbishop of the same archeparchy. The archbishop-elect was born at Zaidal, Syria, in 1946 and ordained a priest in 1974.

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