The World - News from June 13, 1988
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Czechoslovakia’s first new resident bishop in 15 years was consecrated by Pope John Paul II’s envoy for Eastern Europe in a ceremony in Trnava in the republic of Slovakia. About 15,000 people gathered at the town’s main church as the Vatican envoy, Archbishop Francesco Colasuonno, consecrated Jan Sokol, 54, as bishop and apostolic administrator of the Trnava archdiocese. In a 20-minute sermon interrupted at least two dozen times by applause, Colasuonno called upon the state to allow more bishops to fill vacancies in nine of the nation’s 13 dioceses and vowed to push for more religious education in the Communist nation.
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