MISSION NAMED TO MILLENNIUM OF CHRISTIANITY IN ICELAND

VATICAN CITY, JUN 21, 2000 (VIS) - Made public today was the Holy Father's Letter, written in Latin and dated May 10, 2000, to Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, in which he named him as his special envoy to the celebrations of the millennium of Christianity in Iceland. These will take place in Reykjavik on July 1 and 2.

Also named were the members of the pontifical mission accompanying Cardinal Cassidy: Msgr. James P. Green, counsellor in the apostolic nunciature in Iceland, and Fathers Hjalti Thorkelsson, episcopal vicar of the diocese of Reykjavik for liturgy and catechesis, and Jacob Rolland, chancellor of the same diocese.

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