AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, OCT 18, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

- Archbishop Antonio Lucibello, apostolic nuncio in Paraguay.
- Bishop Jose de Jesus Quintero Diaz of Tibu, Colombia.

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

- Cardinal Jan Pieter Schotte C.I.C.M., secretary general of the Synod of Bishops.
- Mijo Beccaria, president of the "Bureau International Catholique de l'Enfance", France.
- Sr. Irina Ioana Bota O.S.B.M., provincial superior in Romania for the order of Basilian Sisters and president of the Romanian Conference of Superiors Major, Romania.
- Sr. Rita Burley A.C.I., superior general of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and president of the International Union of Superiors General, Great Britain.
- Sr. Tekla Famiglietti O.SS.S., abbess general of the Order of the Most Holy Savior of St. Bridget, Italy.
- Sr. Judith Frei O.S.B., abbess of the monastery of Benedictine Sisters at Rietberg, Germany.
- Sanja Horvat, health-care worker and student at the Theological Institute of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
- Irina Ilovaisky Giorgi-Alberti, editor of "La Pensee Russe," France. - Chiara Lubich, foundress and president of the Focolare Movement, Italy.
- Sr. Jolanta Olech U.S.J.K., superior general of the Ursuline Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Agony and president of the Conference of Superiors Major of Women's Institutes in Poland.
- Sr. Enrica Rosanna F.M.A., professor at the Pontifical Faculty for Educational Sciences "Auxilium," Rome.
- Rosemary Ann Smith of the Secular Institute of "Caritas Christi," Great Britain.
- Sr. Kornelia Zoric S.F.I.C., superior general of the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

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