AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, OCT 12, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father received today in separate audiences:

- Hugo Chavez Frias, president of the Republic of Venezuela, accompanied by his entourage.
- Archbishop Mario Zenari, apostolic nuncio in the Ivory Coast, Niger, Burkina Faso.
- Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, apostolic nuncio in Belarus.
- Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith.

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

- Cardinal Geraldo Majella Agnelo, archbishop of Sao Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.
- Cardinal Claudio Hummes, O.F.M., archbishop of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Archbishop Francisco Viti of Huambo, Angola.
- Archbishop Luciano Pedro Mendes De Almeida, S.J., of Mariana, Brazil.
- Archbishop Eusebio Oscar Scheid, S.C.I., of Sao Sebastiao do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Archbishop Luis Morales Reyes of San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
- Archbishop Tome Makhweliha, S.C.I., of Nampula, Mozambique.
- Bishop David Picao, emeritus of Santos, Brazil.
- Bishop Jayme Herique Chemello of Pelotas, Brazil.
- Prelate Javier Echevarria Rodriguez of the Personal Prelature of Opus Dei, Spain.
- BIshop Hugo Barrantes Urena of Puntarenas, Costa Rica.
- Bishop Marcelo Arturo Gonzalez Amador of Santa Clara, Cuba.

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