AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, OCT 4, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

- Cardinal Edmund Casimir Szoka, president of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State and special envoy at the celebrations for the 450th anniversary of the arrival of St. Francis Xavier in Kagoshima, Japan.
- Cardinal Rosalio Jose Castillo Lara S.D.B., special envoy at the Colombian Third National Eucharistic Congress.

The following synod fathers were invited to lunch:

- Cardinal Camillo Ruini, vicar general of Rome.
- Cardinal Vinko Puljic, archbishop of Vrhbosna, Bosnia- Herzegovina.
- Archbishop Giuseppe Germano Bernardini O.F.M. Cap., of Izmir, Turkey.
- Archbishop Franc Perko of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
- Archbishop Giuseppe Costanzo of Siracusa, Italy.
- Archbishop Benigno Luigi Papa O.F.M., of Taranto, Italy.
- Archbishop Josip Bozanic of Zagreb, Croatia.
- Archbishop Angelo Massafra O.F.M., of Shkodre, Albania.
- Bishop Joakim Herbut of Skopje-Prizren, Macedonia.
- Bishop Attilo Nicora, emeritus of Verona, Italy.
- Bishop Petru Gherghel of Iasi, Romania.
- Bishop Amedee Grab O.S.B. of Chur, Switzerland.
- Bishop Agostino Superbo, emeritus of Altamura-Gravina-Acquaviva delle Fonti, Italy.

On Saturday, October 4, he received Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

That same day, the following synod participants were invited to lunch:

- Cardinal Jozef Glemp, archbishop of Warsaw, Poland.
- Cardinal Kazimierz Swiatek, archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev, Belarus.
- Archbishop Marian Jaworski of Lviv of the Latins, Ukraine.
- Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, apostolic administrator of European Russia.
- Archbishop Janis Pujats of Riga, Latvia.
- Archbishop Tadeusz Goclowski C.M., of Gdansk, Poland.
- Archbishop Josef Michalik of Przemysl of the Latins, Poland.
- Bishop Alfons Nossol of Opole, Poland.
- Bishop Andrzej Wojciech Suski of Torun, Poland.
- Bishop Sofron Mudry O.S.B.M., of Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.
- Bishop Lubomyr Husar M.S.U., auxiliary with special faculties to the major archbishop of Lviv of the Ukrainians.
- Bishop Adam Lepa, auxiliary of Lodz, Poland.
- Bishop Stanislaw Padewski O.F.M. Cap., auxiliary of Lviv of the Latins, Ukraine.
- Fr. Czeslaw Parzyszek S.A.C., provincial superior of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate, Poland.

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