Darmaatmadja new Jakarta Archbishop<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Pope John Paul II has appointed Monsignor Julius
\nCardinal Darmaatmadja SJ the new Jakarta's archbishop replacing
\nMgr. Leo Soekoto who died last year.<\/p>\n
Vatican's appointment was announced during the Easter
\ncelebrations in all Roman Catholic churches on Saturday night.
\nDarmaatmadja will assume his new post only in June.<\/p>\n
Darmaatmadja, Indonesia's second cardinal, is also the
\narchbishop of Semarang, head of the presidium of the Indonesian
\nBishops Conference and the bishop for the Catholic congregation
\nin the Armed Forces.<\/p>\n
\"We received news of the appointment of Darmaatmadja as new
\nJakarta archbishop several days ago,\" Father Martinus
\nSoenarwidjaja, administrator of the Jakarta Cathedral church told
\nThe Jakarta Post on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The son of devout Catholic parents, Dharmaatmadja, also known
\nas Rijadi was born in Muntilan, Central Java, on Dec. 20, 1934.<\/p>\n
After graduating from Muntilan's Kanisius Catholic Junior High
\nSchool, he continued his studies at the Mertoyudan Minor Seminary
\nin Magelang and then at the Institute for Novices in Girisonta,
\nUngaran, Central Java.<\/p>\n
He studied philosophy at the Athenaeum Major Seminary of
\nPoona, India, where he earned his Masters degree before studying
\nat the Theology Institute in Kentungan, Yogyakarta. He also
\ntaught at the Mertoyudan Seminary. He was later appointed as
\nrector of the seminary.<\/p>\n
Darmaatmadja became a priest in 1969, and was installed as
\narchbishop in 1983.<\/p>\n
Indonesia has the largest Moslem population in the world. The
\nRoman Catholic congregation Indonesia constitutes 3.6 percent of
\n190 million Indonesians. The other minority religions are
\nProtestantism, Buddhism and Hinduism. (31)<\/p>",
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