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04.02.2005
Fifteenth Year  – N.60

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, APR 2, 2005 (VIS) –

Over the course of the last few weeks the Holy Father has adopted a number
of provisions that can only be made public today. He:

– Appointed Bishop Nechan Karakeheyan, of Ispahan of the Armenians, Iran,
as Ordinary for Armenian Catholics of Eastern Europe, at the same time
assigning him the title of Archbishop “ad personam.” He succeeds Archbishop
Nerses Der Nersessian C.M.A., whose resignation from the same office was
accepted by the Holy Father in accordance with Canon 210 of the Code of
Canons of the Eastern Churches. He also accepted the resignation from the
position of coadjutor of the same Ordinariate presented by Archbishop Vartan
Kechichian, in accordance with Canons 218 and 210 of the Code of Canons of
the Eastern Churches.

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