AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, OCT 7, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

- Archbishop Luigi Conti, apostolic nuncio in Turkey and Turkmenistan.
- Archbishop Giovanni Tonucci, apostolic nuncio in Kenya and permanent observer at the U.N. Offices for the Environment and Human Settlement.
- Bishop Flavio Calle Zapata of Sonson-Rionegro, Colombia.

The following participants in the Synod for Europe were invited to lunch by the Holy Father:

- Cardinal Laszlo Paskai, O.F.M., archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary.
- Cardinal Christoph Schonborn O.P., archbishop of Vienna, Austria.
- Archbishop Johannes Joachim Degenhardt of Paderborn, Germany.
- Archbishop Georg Eder of Salzburg, Austria.
- Archbishop Fernand Franck of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
- Bishop Egon Kapellari of Gurk, Austria. - Bishop Karl Lehmann of Mainz, Germany.
- Bishop Josef Homeyer of Hildesheim, Germany.
- Bishop Bernhard Hasslberger, auxiliary of Munich and Freising, Germany.
- Bishop Klemens Pickel, auxiliary of European Russia.
- Fr. Wilhelm Steckling O.M.I., superior general of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate, Germany.
- Fr. Heinrich Barlage S.V.D., superior general of the Society of the Divine Word, Germany.

Yesterday evening, October 6, the Holy Father received Cardinal Camillo Ruini, vicar general for the diocese of Rome, accompanied by Archbishop Cesare Nosiglia, vicegerent of Rome; Msgr. Aldo Zega, pastor of the parish of St. Catherine of Siena and an assistant.

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