austraLasia
#1882
Catching up on
(hopefully) all EAO ordinations and professions in
May-June
EAO: 19th June 2007 -- As
promised, here is a list, hopefully complete (but as always this hope depends on
the information coming through from one or other part of the region) of
ordinations and professions last month and this one. Mention has already
been made (#1872, 1878) of the ordination to diaconate of Falaniko Felise, Samoa
(Australia-Pacific), the episcopal ordination of Tim Costelloe, Melbourne (cf.
www.sdb.org for photos), and the priestly ordination which will take place this
coming 23rd June in Samoa of Taisali Leuluai. Mention was also made of the final
profession of Brother Baltasar Sali (ITM) in Jakarta
(#1875).
May was a busy ordination and profession month in
various parts of the region - or to do with the region. Some would be aware that
there is a missionary from ITM in Argentina (Bahia Blanca), Brigildo De
Deus. Bro. Brigildo made his final profession at Zapala Nequen on 26th
May, close to where Zeferino Namancurá came from. It was where Bro
Brigildo had completed his practical training. He is now in 1st year
theology in Buenos Aires. Another final profession on 24th May was of a
Vietnamese missionary studying in Manila. Bro. Michael Tran Ba Hiep returned to
Xuan Hiep, Ho Chi Minh City, for the profession ceremony.
Diaconate ordinations include one from ITM, Juniantoro Bonifacio Onny, ordained
at Messina on 9th June along with Eugene Xalxo originally from India but now a
missionary to Cambodia (THA) and Joseph Noppadol (THA). Bishop Calogero La
Piana sdb of Messina was the ordaining prelate. In Rome, on 16th June Paolo Ho
Trong Phu from Vietnam, but resident in the Gerini community in Rome, was
ordained deacon at Sacred Heart Basilica Rome. Bishop Luc Van Looy was the
ordaining prelate.
There have been nine priestly
ordinations as well. Two Vietnamese students who have studied at the Crocetta
after completing their practical training in the Ligure Tascana province, were
ordained priest, one at the Basilica of MHC in Turin on 26th May, the other at
Livorno on 28th April. They are Joseph Nguyen Ngoc Vinh and Joseph Vu Trong Tai,
respectively.
In the Southern Philippines province (FIS),
Brian Butanas was ordained priest at Silay, Negros Occidental, on June 15th.
Further north in Manila, Abel De Ocampo Jr. was ordained
priest.
On 25th June in Korea the following are due for
priestly ordination: Timothy Choi Won Cheol, who will depart for PNG-SI
Delegation as a missionary later in July, Elijah Lee Min Kyu, Paul Choi Kwang
Seob, Mark Yang Cheong Shik and Bernard Lee Jung Seok.
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