Benedict XVI appointed the prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples to represent him in Ethiopia at ceremonies commemorating the new Christian millennium and the national Eucharistic congress.A Latin-language letter to Cardinal Ivan Dias, dated March 27, was made public Saturday.
In the message, the Pope names the cardinal his envoy to the millennium ceremonies and the May 2-4 Eucharistic congress, which will be held in Addis Ababa.
Father Tsegaye Kenini of the archdiocese of Addis Ababa, former secretary-general of the Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat, and Father Tesfaye Tadesse, superior-general of the Combonian Missionary Fathers in Ethiopia and president of the conference of religious superiors-major of Ethiopia, will accompany the cardinal.
Ethiopia uses a calendar that marks New Year on Sept. 11 -- or on Sept. 12 in a leap year -- and has an eight-year difference with the Gregorian calendar used in the West.
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