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3,000 New Catholics
Bishop’s Assyrian Flock Now in Communion With Rome
BY STEPHEN MIRARCHI REGISTER CORRESPONDENT June 8-14, 2008 Issue |
Posted 6/3/08 at 10:21 AM
EL CAJON, Calif. — Busily preparing
himself for Pentecost, Mar Bawai Soro — a suspended bishop of the Assyrian
Church of the East — received the news for which he had been waiting.
He and a great number of his
adherents in El Cajon, Calif. — nearly 3,000 by his count — were formally
accepted on May 9 into the Catholic diocese of St. Peter the Apostle for
Chaldeans and Assyrians.
An advocate of the primacy of the
bishop of Rome, Mar Bawai (Mar
is an honorific title meaning bishop) was...
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