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Newark NJ, the Archdiocese of Newark’s African American, African, and Caribbean Apostolate will celebrate a special Mass on Saturday, Oct. 8, at 10:30 a.m. in Newark’s Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart to commemorate two major milestones — the 40th anniversary of the Apostolate’s founding and the 25th anniversary of the death of Bishop Joseph Abel Francis, SVD, the titular Bishop of Valliposita and the first and only Black auxiliary bishop in archdiocesan history.