AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, OCT 8, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

- Archbishop Eugenio Sbarbaro, apostolic nuncio in Suriname and in the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, apostolic pro-nuncio in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Jamaica, Grenada, Santa Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago and apostolic delegate in the Antilles.
- The Reverend Protopresbyter Kyriakos Tsouros, fraternal delegate of the Greek Orthodox Church at the Second Special Assembly for Europe of the Synod of Bishops.

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

- Cardinal Thomas Joseph Winning, archbishop of Glasgow, Scotland.
- Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.
- Metropolitan Jeremias of France, of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
- Archbishop Josif of the Romanian Patriarchate, archbishop of Western and Southern Europe, from Romania.
- Reverend Protopresbyter Kyriakos Tsouros of the Greek Orthodox Church, Greece.
- Bishop John Hind of the Anglican community, bishop of Gibraltar, diocesan in Europe, Gibraltar.
- Reverend Keith Clements of the World Baptist Alliance, secretary general of the European Episcopal Conferences, Switzerland.
- Reihard Frieling of the World Lutheran Federation, moderator of the Commission on Churches in Dialogue, Germany.
- Reverend Veikko Purmonen of the Finnish Orthodox Church, Finland. - Fr. Matthias Turk, official of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.
- Fr. Aldo Giordano, secretary general of the Council of the European Episcopal Conferences, from Italy.
- Fr. Peter Hans Kolvenbach S.J., superior general of the Society of Jesus, from the Netherlands.

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