AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, OCT 11, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father received today in separate audiences:

- Archbishop Lorenzo Baldisseri, apostolic nuncio in India and Nepal.
- Bishop Amedee Grab of Chur, Switzerland, president of the Council of European Episcopal Conferences; with Vice-Presidents Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, archbishop of Westminster, Great Britain, Archbishop Josip Bozanic of Zagreb, Croatia, and Secretary General Fr. Aldo Giordano.

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

- Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.
- Cardinal Johannes Adrianus Simonis, archbishop of Utrecht, the Netherlands.
- Cardinal William Henry Keeler, archbishop of Baltimore, U.S.A.
- Archbishop John Olorunferni Onaiyekan of Abuja, Nigeria.
- Bishop Donald James Reece of Saint John's-Basseterre, Antigua and Barbuda.
- Bishop Raymond John Lahey of Saint George's, Canada.
- Metropolitan Ambrosius of Oulu, Finland, fraternal delegate of the Orthodox Church of Finland.
- Bishop Mikael Ajapahyan of Gyumri, Armenia, fraternal delegate of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
- Bishop Peter Forster of Chester, Great Britain, fraternal delegate of the Anglican Communion.
- Bishop Tore Furberg of the Lutheran Church of Sweden, fraternal delegate of the World Lutheran Federation.

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