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Another monument to John Paul II opened in Ukraine

25-08-2008

Kiev, August 25, Interfax - A monument to the previous Pope John Paul II of Rome was opened in Odessa.

Representatives of the Polish general consulate in Odessa, Roman-Catholic and Ukrainian Greek-Catholic bishops as well as John Paul II's personal secretary Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow attended the ceremony.

About two hundred believers participated in a procession with cross preceding the ceremony, Ukrainian mass media reports.

The monument is set on the wall of the Assumption Cathedral.

Another monument to the late pontific was erected over a year ago near the Carmelite church in the village of Bilshivtsy of the Ivano-Frankovsk Region of Ukraine.

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