Vatican envoy in Surabaya

SURABAYA: Cardinal Francis Arienze, a senior official from the Vatican, attended the ordainment ceremony of Monseigneur Johanes Hadiwikarta as the new bishop of Surabaya on Tuesday.

Bishop Hadiwikarta, 50, was previously head of the Roman Catholic Church in Semarang. He replaced Bishop A.J. Dibjokarjono who retired recently at the age of 75.

Cardinal Arienze is the president of the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialog. He is in Indonesia at the invitation of the government and the local Roman Catholic Church.

He is scheduled to meet with President Soeharto in Jakarta today. (emb)