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Only Haitian-American Prelate Is Part of Advisory Group
WASHINGTON, D.C., FEB. 25, 2010 (Zenit.org).- The U.S. episcopal conference has created an advisory committee to study a continuing aid response to the Jan. 12 earthquake that destroyed the Haitian capital and killed its archbishop.
Members of the group will visit the island next week. The advisory committee was created by Archbishop José Gomez of San Antonio, chairman of the Subcommittee on the Church in Latin America.
Archbishop Gomez, who will chair the advisory group, will be joined by Cardinal Seán O’Malley, archbishop of Boston, Bishop Thomas Wenski of Orlando, and Bishop Guy Sansaricq, auxiliary bishop of Brooklyn and the only Haitian-American bishop in the United States.
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WASHINGTON, D.C., FEB. 25, 2010 (Zenit.org).- The U.S. episcopal conference has created an advisory committee to study a continuing aid response to the Jan. 12 earthquake that destroyed the Haitian capital and killed its archbishop.
Members of the group will visit the island next week. The advisory committee was created by Archbishop José Gomez of San Antonio, chairman of the Subcommittee on the Church in Latin America.
Archbishop Gomez, who will chair the advisory group, will be joined by Cardinal Seán O’Malley, archbishop of Boston, Bishop Thomas Wenski of Orlando, and Bishop Guy Sansaricq, auxiliary bishop of Brooklyn and the only Haitian-American bishop in the United States.
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