AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, MAY 28, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father received today in separate audiences:

- Five prelates of the Guatemalan Episcopal Conference, on the occasion of their "ad limina" visit:
- Bishop Alvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri of San Marcos.
- Bishop Pablo Vizcaino Prado of Suchitepequez-Retalhuleu.
- Bishop Raul Antonio Martinez Paredes of Solola-Chimaltenango.
- Bishop Luis Maria Estrada Paetau, apostolic vicar of Izabal.
- Bishop Oscar Julio Vian Morales, apostolic vicar of El Peten.
- Cardinal Armand Gaetan Razafindratandra, archbishop of Antananarivo, Madagascar, and president of the Episcopal Conference of Madagascar.

On Saturday, May 26, he received in separate audiences:

- Six prelates of the Guatemalan Episcopal Conference, on the occasion of their "ad limina" visit:
- Bishop Rodolfo Valenzuela Nunez of Vera Paz-Coban.
- Bishop Rodolfo Quezada Toruno of Zacapa y Santo Cristo de Esquipulas.
- Bishop Jorge Mario Avila del Aguila of Jalapa en Guatemala. - Bishop Julio Amilcar Bethancourt Fioravanti of Santa Rosa de Lima.
- Bishop Julio Edgar Cabrera Ovalle of Quiche.
- Bishop Rodolfo Francisco Bobadilla Mata of Huehuetenango.
- Cardinal Jan Pieter Schotte, secretary general of the Synod of Bishops.
- Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.

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