CARDINAL SODANO IS LEGATE TO CHURCH CENTENARY IN BRAZIL

VATICAN CITY, APR 15, 2000 (VIS) - Made public today was Pope John Paul's Letter to Cardinal Angelo Sodano, secretary of state, naming him as pontifical legate to the celebrations for the fifth centenary of the evangelization of Brazil, which will take place on April 26 in Porto Seguro. The letter, written in Latin, is dated March 25.

Also published today were the names of the delegation accompanying the cardinal: Msgrs. Timothy Broglio, nunciature counselor in the Secretariat of State, Andres Carrascosa Coso, counselor in the nunciature in Brazil and Stefano Migliorelli, an official in the Secretariat of State; Frs. Joelson Dias da Silva, coordinator of the commission of the diocese of Eunapolis for the fifth centenary of the evangelization of Brazil, and Marcony Vinicius Ferreira, pastor of the cathedral of Brasilia; Giampaolo Mattei, editor of the L'Osservatore Romano.

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