1.
GV EXT ST. PETER'S AND CROWD.
0.04

2.
GV INT CONGREGATION
0.06

3.
LV NEW BISHOPS PROSTRATE BEFORE ALTAR.
0.09

4.
CU PAN DITTO.
0.21

5.
SV SECTION OF CONGREGATION.
0.24

6.
CTV POPE BLESSES NEW BISHOP.
0.32

7.
SV CONGREGATION.
0.35

8.
CU POPE BLESSES ANOTHER BISHOP.
0.39

9.
LV SECTION OF CONGREGATION.
0.41

10.
CU POPE EMBRACES NEW BISHOP, WHOSE HAT FALLS OFF.
0.49

11.
LV THE FIVE NEW BISHOPS SEATED.
0.54



Initials JNT/V/BHH/EEH AA/V/BHH/BB



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Background: POPE PAUL YESTERDAY (SUNDAY) CONSECRATED BISHOP DUTCH MONSIGNOR JAN WILLEBRANDS, 54-YEAR-OLD SECRETARY OF THE VATICAN'S SECRETARIAT FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN UNITY.

WITH THE DUTCH PRELATE, FOUR OTHER NEWLY PROMOTED BISHOPS WERE CONSECRATED BY THE POPE IN A THREE-HOUR RITE AT THE ALTAR OF SAINT PETER'S CHAIR IN THE BRIGHTLY LIT APSE OF THE BASILICA.

GERMAN CARDINAL AUGUSTIN BEA, PRESIDENT OF THE SECRETARIAT, ATTENDED THE SOLEMN CEREMONY IN SAINT PETER'S BASILICA IN THE VATICAN, TOGETHER WITH SEVEN OTHER CARDINALS.

THE FIVE HAD BEEN PROMOTED TITULAR BISHOPS AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS MONTH. MONSIGNOR WILLEBRANDS IS TITULAR BISHOP OF MAURIANA (NORTH AFRICA).

THE OTHERS WERE FRENCH MONSIGNOR PIERRE SALMON, AND ITALIAN MONSIGNORS ANGELO PALMAS, APOSTOLIC DELEGATE IN VIETNAM AND CAMBODIA WHO WAS MADE A TITULAR ARCHBISHOP, ERNESTO CAMAGNI AND GIOVANNI FALLANI.

IN A SIMILAR CEREMONY, POPE PAUL CONSECRATED 14 BISHOPS ON OCTOBER 20.

CONSECRATING MONSIGNOR WILLEBRANDS, POPE PAUL SAID: "DEAR BROTHER IN SEARCH OF CHRISTIAN BRETHREN STILL SEPARATED FROM US BUT UNITED IN HOPE, MAY YOUR MINISTRY ON THE ROAD OF HOPED-RECONCILIATION BRING GLORY TO CHRIST AND THE CHURCH."