AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, JUN 3, 2002 (VIS) - Today the Holy Father received in separate audiences:

- Jorge Quiroga Ramirez, president of the Republic of Bolivia, accompanied by his wife and an entourage.
- Five prelates from the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela on their "ad limina" visit:
- Archbishop Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino of Valencia.
- Archbishop Ramon Ovidio Perez Morales of Los Teques.
- Bishop Eduardo Herrera Riera of Carora.
- Bishop Mariano Jose Parra Sandoval of Cuidad Guayana. - Bishop Rafael Ramon Conde Alfonzo of Margarita.
- Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.

On Saturday June 1, the Holy Father received in separate audiences:

- Seven prelates from the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela on their "ad limina" visit:
- Archbishop Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo of Merida, accompanied by his auxiliary, Bishop Luis Alfonso Marquez Molina.
- Archbishop Ubaldo Ramon Santana Sequera of Maracaibo.
- Bishop Vicente Ramon Hernandez Pena of Trujillo.
- Bishop Cesar Ramon Ortega Herrera of Barcelona.
- Bishop Freddy Jesus Fuenmayor Suarez.
- Bishop Jose Hernan Sanchez Porras, military ordinate.
- Cardinal Camillo Ruini, vicar general for the diocese of Rome and president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, and Bishop Guiseppe Betori, secretary general of the same conference.

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