ARCHBISHOP TAURAN, ENVOY TO CHURCH CELEBRATIONS IN RUSSIA

VATICAN CITY, MAY 17, 2001 (VIS) - Made public today was a Letter from the Holy Father to Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, secretary for Relations with States, whom the Pope had named on April 21, 2001, as his special envoy for the celebrations of the 10th anniversary of the reorganization of the Catholic Church of Latin rite in the Russian Federation. The Letter is dated April 25 and is written in Latin.

The other members of the Pontifical Mission, who will accompany Archbishop Tauran to the May 25-27 ceremonies in Moscow, are: Archbishop Giorgio Zur, Holy See representative to the Russian Federation; Msgr. Ivan Jurkovic, nunciature counsellor in the Secretariat of State, and Msgr. Marek Solczynski, secretary in the Holy See's representation to the Russian Federation.

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