AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, OCT 5, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

- Bishop Joseph Anthony Fiorenza of Galveston-Houston, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops of the United States of America. Bishop Fiorenza was accompanied by Bishop Wilton Daniel Gregory of Belleville and Msgrs. Dennis M. Schnurr and William P. Fay, respectively vice-president, secretary general and secretary general-elect of the same conference.
- Archbishop Theodore-Adrien Sarr of Dakar, Senegal.
- Kizhakke Pisharath Balakrishnan, ambassador of India, accompanied by his wife, on a farewell visit.

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