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Cardinal O'Brien, Special Papal Envoy to Derry

01-06-2009

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VATICAN CITY, 30 MAY 2009 (VIS) - Made public today was a Letter from the Holy Father appointing Cardinal Keith Michael Patrick O'Brien, archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland, as his special envoy to celebrations marking the centenary of the foundation of Long Tower church in the Irish city of Derry, due to be held on 9 June. The Letter, written in Latin, is dated 2 May.

The cardinal will be accompanied on his mission by Fr. Thomas P. Donnelly, pastor emeritus of Nazareth House, Fahan, Co. Donegal, and expert on the life of St. Columba, and by Fr. Michael Canny, administrator of St. Eugene's Cathedral in Derry.

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