AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, JUN 22, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences;

- Eight prelates from the Irish Episcopal Conference, on their "ad limina" visit:
- Bishop Laurence Forristal of Ossory.
- Bishop Brendan Oliver Comiskey SS.CC., of Ferns.
- Bishop Seamus Hegarty of Derry, accompanied by his auxiliary, Bishop Francis Lagan.
- Bishop Donal Brendan Murray of Limerick.
- Bishop Colm O'Reilly of Ardagh.
- Bishop Patrick Joseph Walsh of Down and Connor, accompanied by his auxiliary, Bishop Anthony J. Farquhar.
- Archbishop Augustine Kasujja, apostolic nuncio in Algeria and Tunisia.

He is scheduled to meet later this evening with Cardinal Josef Tomko, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

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