The World - News from July 26, 1989
In another sign of improving relations between the Vatican and Moscow, Pope John Paul II named a new Roman Catholic bishop in the Soviet Union. A Vatican statement said the Pope appointed Father Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, 43, as bishop of Minsk, the capital of Byelorussia. The bishopric had been vacant since World War II, and its previous bishop died in exile in Belgium in 1981. Kondrusiewicz will be in charge of the pastoral care of the estimated 2 million Catholics in the Soviet republic, which borders the Ukraine.
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