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The first inter-American Episcopal conference, November 2-4, 1959: Canada and the United States called to the rescue of Latin America

As with the push for the evangelization of African-Americans, and the subsequent efforts to ordain priests from within the same community for service within the United States, to a great extent, both the initiative and the sustaining momentum for an ecclesial pan-American movement intended to aid the Church in Latin America during the Cold War era came from the Holy See.1 The first inter-American Episcopal Conference, held at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., November 2-- 4, 1959, consisting of representatives of the collegial bodies of the Latin American, United States, and Canadian hierarchies,2 was convoked by the Holy See in order "to broaden the concept of collaboration in ...

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