AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, MAY 19, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

- Cardinal Augusto Vargas Alzamora S.J., archbishop emeritus of Lima, Peru.
- Simeon Ake, Ivory Coast ambassador, accompanied by his wife, on a farewell visit.
- Bishop Luis Armando Bambaren Gastelumendi S.J., of Chimbote, Peru, president of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference, accompanied by Archbishop Hector Miguel Cabreros Vidarte O.F.M., of Trujillo, first vice-president and Msgr. Jorge Carrion Pavlich, apostolic administrator "Sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis" of Puno, president of the economic council.
- Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, archbishop of Madrid, Spain, president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, accompanied by Cardinal Ricardo Maria Carles Gordo, archbishop of Barcelona and Bishop Juan Jose Asenjo Pelegrina, auxiliary of Toledo, respectively vice-president and secretary general of the same episcopal conference.

This evening, he is scheduled to received Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

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