austraLasia 779
THAILAND: FR. JOSEPH PRATHAN NEW
PROVINCIAL
ROME: 24th December '03 -- The Rector
Major and his council in a recent sitting have appointed Fr. Joseph Prathan
Sridarunsil as Provincial of Thailand Province (which also includes the Cambodia
mission) for the six year period 2003-2009.
'Fr. Lec' as he is nicknamed for all in the Province,
will be installed as Provincial in Bangkok on 13th February 2004. This is
his second mandate as provincial in the province, having been appointed from
1992-97. In the past year he was appointed as the Regional Coordinator of
formation for the East Asia-Oceania Region.
Fr. Lec has held many positions of responsibility in his
province - latterly as the Rector of the formation hosue at Sampran. He
has also become a great devotee of 'Lectio Divina' not only within the province,
but in the Thai Church, throughout the various dioceses and amongst the Salesian
Family.
'austraLasia' wishes him well as he prepres to take up
the renewed challenge of province leadership.
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