Tuesday, December 19, 2000

PRESENTATION OF CLOSING CEREMONIES FOR THE HOLY YEAR

VATICAN CITY, DEC 19, 2000 (VIS) - In the Holy See Press Office at 11:30 a.m. on Friday December 22, Bishop Piero Marini, master of liturgical ceremonies of the Supreme Pontiff, will speak on the concluding Holy Year ceremonies. The Holy Doors of the patriarchal basilicas of St. Paul's Outside-the-Walls, St. Mary Major and St. John Lateran will be closed on January 5, and that of St. Peter's on January 6.

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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, DEC 19, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Fr. Piotr Kryk, vicar general of Wroclaw Gdansk of the Byzantine-Ukrainian rite, as apostolic exarch of faithful of the Byzantine-Ukrainian rite in Germany. The bishop-elect was born in Kobylnica Woloska, Poland, in 1945 and ordained a priest in 1971.

- Msgr. Jose Hernan Sanchez Porras of the clergy of the diocese of San Cristobal, Venezuela, secretary general of the Venezuelan Epsicopal Conference, as military ordinary for Venezuela. The bishop-elect was born in Palmira, Venezuela, in 1944 and ordained a priest in 1967.

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