Communications on Nov. 15, 2002
* Diocese of Masan Welcomes New Diocesan Bishop
The Most Rev. Francis Xavier Ahn Myong-ok was installed the Bishop of Masan(area: 8.994㎢, population: 2,501,084, Catholics: 144,532, priests: 134, parishes: 63, men religious institutes: 5, women religious institutes: 26, major seminarians: 51) on November 11.
The Most Rev. Francis Xavier Ahn Myong-ok has served as the Coadjutor Bishop of Masan for two years and succeeded the Most Rev. Michael Pak Jeong-il to be the 4th Bishop of Masan, whose resignation was accepted by the Holy Father. The ceremony of the episcopal installation was held at the Auditorium of Seong-ji Girls' High School in Masan in the presence of all member Bishops of the CBCK, and retired Bishops including His Eminence Stephen Cardinal Kim Sou-hwan, the Most Rev. Giovanni Battista Morandini, Apostolic Nuncio in Seoul. A congregation of 3500 attended the ceremony.
The Most Rev. Ahn who is the first Bishop from Masan since the Diocese was established 36 years ago said in his homily "for God called me to this new office, I accept it humbly though I don't deserve for it" and added "I will devote myself to be in the vanguard of the social evangelization by seeking first God's will, proclaiming the words of God and life, and I promise you to live in a way not to disappoint your expectation."
His Eminence Cardinal Kim, who was the first Bishop of Masan, congratulated the new Bishop saying "in the new millennium God sent a new Bishop to the Diocese of Masan," and added "everything will be renewed when we try to imitate Jesus as the pastoral moto of Bishop Ahn says; 'Remember Jesus Christ'(2 Tim 2, 8)."
The Most Rev. Ahn was born in Masan in 1945, graduated from the Kwangju Major Seminary, and was ordained a priest in 1975. He studied at the Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck, Austria and obtained a master's degree in moral theology. Until he was appointed as the Coadjutor Bishop of Masan, he was the rector of the Busan Catholic University and taught the moral theology there.
* Holy Father John Paul II Appointed Most Rev. Boniface Choi Ki-san to Member of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue
On October 21, 2002, His Eminence Monsignor. Michael L. Fitzgerald, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, forwarded to the Most Rev. Boniface Choi Ki-san the document by which Holy Father has appointed him to Member of the Pontifical Council of Interreligious Dialogue as of September 17, 2002.
The Most Rev. Boniface Choi Ki-san is President of the Committee for Promoting Christian Unity & Interreligous Dialogue of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea(CBCK).
* Women Related Documents of the Church Published
The Subcommittee for Women(under the committee for the Lay Apostolate) of the CBCK published "Church and Women", a 760-page long collection of documents of the Church on women, on October 29, 2002.
"Church and Women" contains documents of the universal Church and the Church in Korea on women including encyclical letters, exhortations, pastoral letters, documents of the Apostolic See and ecumenical councils, materials of the Church in Korea on women.
"Church and Women", the first comprehensive collection of documents in its kind, is expected to serve as the basic directives of women's activities and to offer effective tools of women's study in the Church in Korea.
The Most Rev. Francis Xavier Ahn Myong-ok was installed the Bishop of Masan(area: 8.994㎢, population: 2,501,084, Catholics: 144,532, priests: 134, parishes: 63, men religious institutes: 5, women religious institutes: 26, major seminarians: 51) on November 11.
The Most Rev. Francis Xavier Ahn Myong-ok has served as the Coadjutor Bishop of Masan for two years and succeeded the Most Rev. Michael Pak Jeong-il to be the 4th Bishop of Masan, whose resignation was accepted by the Holy Father. The ceremony of the episcopal installation was held at the Auditorium of Seong-ji Girls' High School in Masan in the presence of all member Bishops of the CBCK, and retired Bishops including His Eminence Stephen Cardinal Kim Sou-hwan, the Most Rev. Giovanni Battista Morandini, Apostolic Nuncio in Seoul. A congregation of 3500 attended the ceremony.
The Most Rev. Ahn who is the first Bishop from Masan since the Diocese was established 36 years ago said in his homily "for God called me to this new office, I accept it humbly though I don't deserve for it" and added "I will devote myself to be in the vanguard of the social evangelization by seeking first God's will, proclaiming the words of God and life, and I promise you to live in a way not to disappoint your expectation."
His Eminence Cardinal Kim, who was the first Bishop of Masan, congratulated the new Bishop saying "in the new millennium God sent a new Bishop to the Diocese of Masan," and added "everything will be renewed when we try to imitate Jesus as the pastoral moto of Bishop Ahn says; 'Remember Jesus Christ'(2 Tim 2, 8)."
The Most Rev. Ahn was born in Masan in 1945, graduated from the Kwangju Major Seminary, and was ordained a priest in 1975. He studied at the Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck, Austria and obtained a master's degree in moral theology. Until he was appointed as the Coadjutor Bishop of Masan, he was the rector of the Busan Catholic University and taught the moral theology there.
* Holy Father John Paul II Appointed Most Rev. Boniface Choi Ki-san to Member of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue
On October 21, 2002, His Eminence Monsignor. Michael L. Fitzgerald, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, forwarded to the Most Rev. Boniface Choi Ki-san the document by which Holy Father has appointed him to Member of the Pontifical Council of Interreligious Dialogue as of September 17, 2002.
The Most Rev. Boniface Choi Ki-san is President of the Committee for Promoting Christian Unity & Interreligous Dialogue of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea(CBCK).
* Women Related Documents of the Church Published
The Subcommittee for Women(under the committee for the Lay Apostolate) of the CBCK published "Church and Women", a 760-page long collection of documents of the Church on women, on October 29, 2002.
"Church and Women" contains documents of the universal Church and the Church in Korea on women including encyclical letters, exhortations, pastoral letters, documents of the Apostolic See and ecumenical councils, materials of the Church in Korea on women.
"Church and Women", the first comprehensive collection of documents in its kind, is expected to serve as the basic directives of women's activities and to offer effective tools of women's study in the Church in Korea.