Cardinal Dias Will Be Special Papal Envoy To Ethiopia

VATICAN CITY, APR. 29, 2008, 09.10 Hrs (CBCI News/VIS):

Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Cardinal Ivan Dias as special Papal Envoy for celebrations in Ethiopia.

Made public today was the Letter, written in Latin and dated 27 March, in which Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Cardinal Ivan Dias, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, as his special envoy to ceremonies commemorating the new Christian Millennium in Ethiopia.

The event will coincide with the Ethiopian National Eucharistic Congress, to be held in Addis Ababa from 2 to 4 May.

The mission accompanying Cardinal Dias will be made up of Fr. Tsegaye Kenini of the archdiocese of Addis Ababa, former secretary general of the Ethiopian Catholic Secretariate, and Fr. Tesfaye Tadesse M.C.C.I., superior general of the Combonian Missionary Fathers in Ethiopia and president of the conference of religious superiors major of Ethiopia.