AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, NOV 26, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

- Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, archbishop of Mexico, Mexico.
- Eight bishops from the Portuguese Episcopal Conference, on their "ad limina" visit:
- Bishop Antonio Jose Rafael of Braganca-Miranda.
- Bishop Armindo Lopes Coelho of Porto, accompanied by his auxiliaries, Bishops Joao Miranda Teixeira, Antonio Maria Bessa Taipa and Antonio Jose Cavaco Carrilho; and by Bishop Manuel da Silva Martins, emeritus of Setubal.
- Bishop Serafim de Sousa Ferreira e Silva of Leiria-Fatima.
- Bishop Joaquim Goncalves of Vila Real.
- Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and Bishop Walter Kasper, emeritus of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany, secretary of the same council.

This evening he is scheduled to receive Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B., emeritus of Vercelli, Italy, and secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

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