AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, MAR 20, 2001 (VIS) - This morning the Holy Father received in separate audiences the new bishops whom he ordained yesterday, along with their family members:

- Archbishop Fernando Filoni, apostolic nuncio in Iraq and Jordan.
- Archbishop Henryk Jozef Nowacki, apostolic nuncio in Slovakia.
- Archbishop Timothy Paul Andrew Broglio, apostolic nuncio in the Dominican Republic and apostolic delegate in Puerto Rico.
- Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino, archbishop-prelate of Pompeii, Italy, and pontifical delegate of the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary.
- Bishop Marc Ouellet, P.S.S., secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. - Bishop Giampaolo Crepaldi, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.
- Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.
- Bishop Tomasz Peta, apostolic administrator in Astana, Kazakhstan.
- Bishop Djura Dzudzar, auxiliary of the eparchy of Mukacheve in Transcarpathia, Ukraine.

On Saturday, March 17, the Pope received in separate audiences:

- Archbishop Dominik Hrusovsky, apostolic nuncio in Belarus.
- Olli Mennander, ambassador of Finland, with his wife on a farewell visit.
- Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.

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