Subject: 'austraLasia' #325
SEMINARY RECTOR IN SERIOUS ACCIDENT
Julian Fox
SUVA: 3rd April --The Rector of the Pacific Regional Seminary, Fr. Doug
Akehurst CM, was badly injured in a car accident at the weekend. He is
presently in intensive care at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital in Suva,
with punctured lung, broken ribs and lacerations resulting from a head-on
collision with another vehicle in the city on Saturday evening.
Fr. Doug, an Australian by birth but long-time resident of Fiji, was
appointed Rector by the Bishops of CEPAC this year. His appointment came at
a crucial time of development and restructuring of the seminary education
that is now offered to some 140 students from nearly a dozen island nations
in the South, Central and North Pacific. Doctors and Seminary officials
expect that Fr. Doug will make a good recovery, but will be absent from his
duties for some months. Fr Kolio Kelekolio, a diocesan priest from the
Archdiocese of Apia, Samoa, very recently appointed as the Vice Rector of
the Seminary, will take over as acting Rector.
