AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, DEC 13, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

- Isaias Afwerki, president of Eritrea.
- His Beatitude Nerses Bedros XIX, patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians.
- Cardinal Camillo Ruini, vicar general for the diocese of Rome, accompanied by Msgr. Lorenzo Leuzzi, director of the office for the pastoral care of universities of the diocese of Rome; Msgr. Sergio Lanza, president of the "Redemptor Hominis" Pastoral Institute of the Pontifical Lateran University; Fr. Natale Loda, chaplain of Rome's Tor Vergata University; Fr. Pedro Olea Alvarez C.S.I., chaplain of Rome's La Terza University and Fr. Massimo Palombella S.D.B., director of the inter-university choir of the diocese of Rome.
On Saturday, December 11, he received Cardinal Lucas Moreira Neves O.P., prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.

On Friday, December 10, he received Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy and Bishop Walter Kasper, respectively president and secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

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