Dominican bishops invite Benedict XVI

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The bishops of the Dominican Republic invited Pope Benedict XVI to take part in the fifth centennial of the establishment of the first dioceses in the New World in 2011. The first dioceses was established on 8 May 1511 in what is now the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. According to the president of the Dominican Council of Bishops, Archbishop Ramun Benito de la Rosa y Carpio, the hope is "that the Pontiff be present in the events that will celebrate the beginning of the evangelization of the New World." The Dominican bishops were in Rome as part of their "ad limina" consultation with the Pope, a pilgrimage held every five years.

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