AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, OCT 26, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father received today in separate audiences:

- Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez, archbishop of Guadalajara, Mexico.
- His Beatitude Michel Sabbah, patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins, Palestine.
- Archbishop Ambrose B. De Paoli, apostolic nuncio in Japan.
- Bishop Thomas Vose Daily of Brooklyn, U.S.A.; with Dr. Carl Albert Anderson, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, accompanied by his wife; and Dr. Virgil C. Dechant.
- His Beatitude Cardinal Stephanos II Ghattas, patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts, Egypt; His Beatitude Ignace Pierre VIII Abdel-Ahad, patriarch of Antioch of the Syrians, Lebanon; His Beatitude Gregoire III Laham, patriarch of Antioch of the Greek-Melkites, Syria; His Beatitude Cardinal Nasrallah Pierre Sfeir, patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, Lebanon; His Beatitude Raphael I Bidawid, patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Iraq; His Beatitude Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians, Lebanon.

He also received the following participants of the Synod of Bishops:
- Cardinal Jan P. Schotte, C.I.C.M., secretary general, Synod of Bishops, Vatican City.
- Giuseppe Camilleri, member of the Society of Christian Doctrine, Malta.
- Fr. Jesus Castellano Cervera, O.C.D., Spain, professor of Dogmatic Theology, vice-president, Pontifical Theological Faculty, Pontifical Teresianum Institute of Spirituality, Rome.
- Fr. Ricard Antonio Ferrara, dean of the Faculty of Theology, Catholic University of Argentina, Argentina.
- Dr. Enrique Galarza Alarcon, consultant, Episcopal Conference of Ecuador.
- Msgr. Renzo Gerardi, ordinary professor, Faculty of Special Moral Theology, Pontifical Urban University, Italy.
- Fr. Gianfranco Ghirlanda, S.J., dean of the Faculty of Canon Law, Pontifical Gregorian University, Italy.
- Fr. Philip Goyret, Argentina, professor of Ecclesiology, University of the Holy Cross, Rome.
- Fr. Jesus Maria Lecea Sainz, S.P., president, Union of European Conferences of Major Superiors, U.C.E.S.M., president, Spanish Conference of Superiors and Major Superiors, Conf.E.R., Spain.
- Fr. Jorge Ortiz Gonzalez, M.Sp.S, superior general, Missionaries of the Holy Spirit; president, Conference of Religious Institutes of Mexico, C.I.R.M., Mexico.
- Fr. Candido Pozo, S.J., professor of Dogmatic Theology, Faculty of Theology, University of Granada, Spain.
- Fr. Alvaro Rodriguez Echeverria, F.S.C., Costa Rica, superior general, Brothers of the Christian Schools; president, Union of Superior Generals, U.S.G., Rome.
- Fr. Jose Ramon Villar, professor of Ecclesiology, Faculty of Theology, University of Navarra, Spain.
- Dr. Nazario Vivero, Venezuela, assessor, Episcopal Conference of Venezuela; member, Pontifical Council for the Laity, Vatican.

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