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EAO Region celebrates June Ordinations
CREMISAN (Holy Land): 8th June
'04 -- June is definitely 'ordination
month' for many from the East Asia-Oceania Region, a total of 10 in all between
priestly and diaconate ordinations at Cremisan and diaconate ordinations in
Rome. The Cremisan ordinations take place this coming Thursday 10th June,
which is celebrated as the Feast of Corpus Christi there. The ordinations
will be in the Basilica of the Nativity. The Rome-based
ordinations will take place on Saturday 19th June at the Sacred Heart
Basilica.
Ola Suban Yosep from Indonesia will be ordained priest at Cremisan on
Thursday. His companion from Indonesia, Matius Sudiantoro, will be
ordained deacon. From East Timor, as deacons, there will be: Acacio De
Castro and Jose Augusto; from Thailand: Kriengsak Chaiyaphornkaew, and from the
Philippines, Reechee Espiritu. Albeiro Rodas, a Colombian, but destined
for the mission in Cambodia, which comes under the Thai Province, will be
ordained deacon also. The Thai Provincial, Fr. Joseph Prathan, will be
there for the occasion.
In Rome it will be the turn of the Japanese and Vietnamese students
studying at the Salesian Theologate Community. To be ordained deacon:
Joseph Shoichiro (Japan), and Joseph Duc Tam Ngyuen, Francis Thien Huan Tu, and
Tommaso Duy Tong Vu.
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