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DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 27, 1994                   TAG: 9404270091
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
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IN THE WORLD

Anglican bishop becomes Catholic LONDON - A former Anglican bishop, who led opposition to the ordination of women by the Church of England, has become a Roman Catholic priest.

Graham Leonard, 72, who retired as bishop of London in 1991, converted to Catholicism April 6 and was ordained a priest Saturday after Pope John Paul II gave his approval.

Leonard, who is married, was an outspoken critic of the Church of England's decision to ordain women priests. He was a bishop for 10 years and is the most senior clergyman to leave the Church of England over the issue. The first women priests were ordained in March.

|- Associated Press

Queen mother of Jordan dies

AMMAN, Jordan - Queen Zein al-Sharaf, mother of King Hussein, died of heart failure Tuesday in a hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland. She was 80.

Zein had been receiving treatment for an unspecified heart ailment, according to a palace statement broadcast on state-run Jordan Radio.

The queen mother suffered from diabetes and high blood pressure and often was hospitalized in Jordan.

Burial was scheduled today at the royal palace after Muslim noon prayers.

The royal court will observe 40 days of mourning and the government announced a week of national mourning.

Zein was married to King Talal in 1934 and had four children: Hussein, Prince Mohammed, Prince Hassan and Princess Basma. Talal died in 1974.

|- Associated Press

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