TELEGRAM FOR THE DEATH OF CARDINAL DEGENHARDT

VATICAN CITY, JUL 25, 2002 (VIS) - John Paul II sent a telegram to the vicar general of the archdiocese of Paderborn, Germany, Msgr. Bruno Kresing, upon hearing the news of the death of Cardinal Johannes Joachim Degenhardt, archbishop of the same archdiocese, today at 76 years old. The cardinal was born in 1926, ordained a priest in 1952, a bishop in 1968 and named a cardinal by John Paul II in the consistory of 2001. He had been archbishop of Paderborn since April of 1974.

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