AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, OCT 20, 1999 (VIS) - The following participants in the Synod for Europe were invited to lunch by the Holy Father:

- Fr. Josef Bisig, superior general of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, Wigratzbad, Germany.
- Msgr. Peter Erdo, rector of the Catholic University of Budapest, Hungary.
- Msgr. Karl Hillenbrand, vicar general of Wurzburg, Germany.
- Fr. Karoly Kerekes O.Cist., former president of the Hungarian Conference of Superiors Major, Hungary.
- Viktor M. Khroul, member of the Pontifical Council for the Laity and editor of the Catholic weekly, "Svet Evanghelia," Russia.
- Fr. Svyatoslav Kyyak O.S.B.M., professor of fundamental theology and ethics at the Theological-Catechetical Institute of Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.
- Fr. Klemens Ladner F.S.C., provincial superior of the Brothers of Christian Schools in Austria, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary, from Austria.
- Nicholas Lobkowicz, director of the Central Institute for Studies on Central and Eastern Europe of the Catholic University of Eichstadt and former member of the permanent committee of the International Federation of Catholic Universities (FIUC), Germany.
- Maria Johanna Theodora Martens, member of the European Parliament, president of the European Forum of the Laity and president of the Dutch National Committee for the Great Jubilee, Holland.
- Fr. Gerhard Ludwig Muller, professor of dogmatic theology at the faculty of theology of the Catholic University of Munich and member of the International Theological Commission, Germany.
- Fr. Ludwig Schwarz S.D.B., national director for the Pontifical Missionary Works, Austria.
- Jan Zicha, member of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, Czech Republic.

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