1948

The year 1948 AD.
==Events==
* Pope Pius XII orders a project to codify the Canon law of the Eastern Rite Catholic churches. The project produces the Codex Iuris Canonici Orientalis (Code of Eastern Canon Law)
* Pentecostal Fellowship of North America forms.
* Albino Luciano (future Pope John Paul I) named pro-vicar general of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
* May 14: The modern nation of Israel founded.
* February 21: John C. Trever photograqphs the Dead Sea Scrolls.
* August 22 to September4: First assembly of World Council of Churches in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
==Births and Deaths==
* October 11: Birth of Peter Kodwo Appiah Cardinal Turkson (Ghana), Archbishop of Cape Coast 
==See also==
20th century
Category:20th century