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Wed 07 Jul 2009Honour for ambassador to Vatican
FRANCIS CAMPBELL, the British ambassador to the Vatican who is from Rathfriland in Co Down, has received an honorary degree from Queen’s University, Belfast.
Mr Campbell, the first Catholic from Northern Ireland to hold a UK ambassadorial post since the Republic of Ireland gained independence in 1921 and also Britain’s first Catholic Ambassador to the Holy See since the Reformation, was awarded the doctorate for distinction in public service at Queen’s yesterday.
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