PAPAL LETTER NAMES ENVOY TO ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS

VATICAN CITY, APR 27, 2000 (VIS) - Made public today was Pope John Paul's Letter to Cardinal Godfried Danneels, archbishop of Mechelen-Brussel, naming him as his special envoy to the May 4 celebrations in London of the 150th anniversary of the reconstitution of the Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales. The Letter, written in Latin, is dated March 30, 2000.

Also published were the names of the other members of the pontifical mission: Msgr. Arthur Roche, secretary general of the Episcopal Conference of England and Wales, and Msgr- Nicholas Rothon, in charge of the episcopal conference's committee for the Great Jubilee of the year 2000.

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