Pope approves Synod meeting (12/26/82)

Pope approves Synod meeting

ROME - An unofficial phone call from Rome has informed the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy in Philadelphia that, on the proposal of Patriarch Josyf Slipyj, Pope John Paul II has approved the next meeting of the synod of Bishops for January 30 through February 12, 1983, in the Vatican.

The date of the synod was established during a private audience with the holy father and a delegation consisting of Archbishop-Coadjutor Myroslav Lubachivsky, secretary of the synod Bishop Andrew Sapelak of Argentina and business secretary of the synod the Rev. Dr. Ihor Monchak.

The date was chosen because it is during the time the pope will be in residence at the Vatican; he plans to visit Poland in March. The program of the synod had not yet been formulated, but sources reveal that one of the topics to be brought up at the synod will be the naming of candidates for bishop to replace the late Bishop Andrew Roborecki of Saskatoon, Sask.

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