AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, OCT 2, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father received today in separate audiences:

- Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
- Archbishop Giovanni Battista Morandini, apostolic nuncio in Korea and Mongolia.

He also received members of the presidency of the Synod of Bishops:
- Cardinal Jan Pieter Schotte, C.I.C.M., secretary general.
- Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, president delegate.
- Cardinal Bernard Agre, archbishop of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, president delegate.
- Cardinal Ivan Dias, archbishop of Bombay, president delegate.
- Cardinal Edward Michael Egan, archbishop of New York, U.S.A., relator general.
- Bishop Marcello Semeraro of Oria, Italy, special secretary.

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