Bishop Vesters
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Retirement Announced
ADVICE has been received at the head quarters of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in Sydney that the Most Rev. Dr. Gerard John Vesters, M.S.C., Vicar Apostolic of Rabaul, has resigned owing to ill-health.
Pope Pius XII, in accepting the resign-
ation of Dr. Vesters, has bestowed on him the title of Assistant-Bishop at the Papal Throne, as a mark of appreciation of his work in the Vicariate of Rabaul during the past 16 years.
Dr. Vesters, who is expected in Sydney shortly, was consecrated in Vunapope, by the then Apostolic Delegate, Archbishop Cattaneo, on August 5, 1923. Last year, in recognition of the help he gave dur ing the Rabaul eruption, he was awarded a British distinction.
The Vicariate Apostolic of Rabaul was placed under the direction of the Sacred Heart Fathers in 1881.