AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, OCT 9, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father received today in audience Ferenc Madl, president of the Republic of Hungary, accompanied by his wife and entourage.

He also received the following members of the Synod of Bishops:

- His Beatitude Cardinal Stephanos II Ghattas, C.M., Patriarch of Alexandria of the Coptics, Egypt.
- His Beatitude Cardinal Nasrallah Pierre Sfeir, Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, Lebanon.
- Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil, C.SS.R., major archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly of the Syro-Malabars, India.
- Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, M.S.U., major archbishop of Lviv of the Ukraines, Ukraine.
- His Beatitude Ignace Pierre VIII Abdel-Ahad, Patriarch of Antioch of the Syrians, Lebanon.
- His Beatitude Gregoire III Laham, B.S., Patriarch of Antioch of the Greek-Melkites, Syria.
- His Beatitude Michel Sabbah, Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins, Jerusalem.
- His Beatitude Raphael I Bidawid, Patriarch of Babylonia of the Chaldeans, Iraq.
- His Beatitude Nerses Bedros XIX, Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians, Lebanon.
- Archbishop Cyril Baselios Malancharuvil, O.I.C., metropolitan of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankars, India.
- Archbishop Stefan Soroka of Philadephia of the Ukraines, U.S.A.
- Bishop Joseph Khoury of Saint-Maron of Montreal of the Maronites, Canada.

AP;...;...;...;VIS;20011009;Word: 200;