WORLD : Soviet Bishop Named as Ties Warm
From Times wire services
VATICAN CITY —
Pope John Paul II today named a new Roman Catholic bishop in the Soviet Union, in another sign of improving relations between the Vatican and Moscow.
A Vatican statement said the Pope had appointed Father Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, 43, as bishop of Minsk, capital of Byelorussia. The bishopric had been vacant since World War II and its last bishop died in exile in Belgium in 1981.
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