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.
 * 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