Conservative Asian primate re-elected.Kudat, Malaysia (ACNS ACNS - Academic Computing and Networking Services ACNS - Advisory Committee on Nuclear Safety ACNS - Aircraft Carrier Navigation System ACNS - American Clinical Neurophysiology Society ACNS - American Conference on Neutron Scattering ACNS - Application and Content Networking System (Cisco) ACNS - Automated Copyright Notice System and staff)-Archbishop Datuk Yong Ping Chung was reelected on Nov. 19 as primate (senior bishop) of the Anglican province of South East Asia at a special meeting held in the diocese of Sabah Sabah (sä`bä), state (1991 pop. 1,736,902), 28,417 sq mi (73,600 sq km), Malaysia, N Borneo, on the South China and Sulu seas. It is bordered on the south by Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). The capital is Kota Kinabalu; other significant towns are Sandakan and Victoria. The terrain is densely forested and mountainous; Mt., Malaysia. Archbishop Yong, 62, is expected to serve until his retirement in February, 2006. A well-known conservative who earned a B.A. degree at Memorial University in 1968 and a licentiate licentiate /li·cen·ti·ate/ (li-sen´she-at) one holding a license from an authorized agency giving the right to practice a particular profession. in theology at Queen's College in 1969, both in Newfoundland, Archbishop Yong has participated in numerous conservative Anglican events in North America. In 2000 and 2001, he was one of several conservative primates who consecrated bishops as part of a breakaway traditionalist group in the United States called the Anglican Mission in America. |
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