The year 1948 AD.
Events[]
- Pope Pius XII orders a project to codify the Canon law of the Eastern Rite Catholic churches. The project produces the Codex Iuris Canonici Orientalis (Code of Eastern Canon Law)
- Pentecostal Fellowship of North America forms.
- Albino Luciano (future Pope John Paul I) named pro-vicar general of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
- May 14: The modern nation of Israel founded.
- February 21: John C. Trever photograqphs the Dead Sea Scrolls.
- August 22 to September4: First assembly of World Council of Churches in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Births and Deaths[]
- October 11: Birth of Peter Kodwo Appiah Cardinal Turkson (Ghana), Archbishop of Cape Coast
See also[]
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