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Pope Benedixt XVI Appoints New Consultors to the Oriental Congregation

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Created on 15 May 2009

Rome - Pope Benedict XVI has today appointed two new consultors to the Congregation for the Oriental Churches. They are:

Bishop Christo Proykov, Apostolic Exarch of Sofia for the Catholics of the Byzantine Slav rite living in Bulgaria, President of the Bulgarian Bishops' Conference; and
Mitred Archpriest Vasyl Hovera, Delegate of the Oriental Congregation for Greek Catholics in Kazakhstan and Central Asia.

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While the Bridegroom tarried, they slumbered and slept: Give ear, ye prudent, to our Lord's parable, for it is all light. All of them slept, both the foolish and the wise -- Which signifies that the good and the wicked die until the resurrection. The same sleep comes upon the ten of them, which is as much as to say, That death is the same for all creation without distinction. One was the sleep of the wise and of the foolish, For one is death, both of the righteous and of sinners. The good die, as the wise virgins slept; And the bad die, as the foolish also slept. Behold, all creation looketh for the coming of the Bridegroom, Christ, Who cometh at the end with His angels. But since He hath tarried, all generations slumber and sleep with the sleep of death, while looking for when He cometh.

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