The World - News from Dec. 21, 1988
Pope John Paul II appointed Berlin Cardinal Joachim Meisner to head the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Cologne in West Germany. The appointment of Meisner, a 54-year-old conservative, was announced in the Vatican daily bulletin. The Cologne archbishop’s post has been vacant since Cardinal Joseph Hoeffner retired in September, 1987.
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