AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, NOV 25, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

- Five prelates from the Portuguese Episcopal Conference, on their "ad limina" visit:
- Bishop Augusto Cesar Alves Ferreira da Silva C.M., of Portalegre-Castelo Branco.
- Bishop Antonio Baltasar Marcelino of Aveiro.
- Bishop Joao Alves of Coimbra, accompanied by his coadjutor, Bishop Albino Mamede Cleto.
- Bishop Antonio dos Santos of Guarda.
- Cardinal James Francis Stafford, president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, accompanied by Bishop Stanislaw Rylko and Guzman Carriquiry, respectively secretary and under secretary of the same pontifical council.

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