AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, JUN 13, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

- Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, president of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, and an entourage.
- Archbishop Patrick Coveney, apostolic nuncio in New Zealand, the Fiji Islands, the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Samoa, Vanuatu, Tonga, Naura, Kiribati, Palau and the Cook Islands, and apostolic delegate of the Pacific Ocean.
- Three prelates from the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela on their "ad limina" visit:
- Bishop Ramiro Diaz Sanchez, apostolic vicar of Machiques.
- Bishop Reinaldo Del Prette Lissot, coadjutor of Maracay.
- Fr. Victor Manuel Roa Aguilar, diocesan administrator of Barinas.
- Archbishop Luigi De Magistris, major pro-penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary, accompanied by Fr. Gianfranco Girotti, O.F.M.Conv., regent of the Apostolic Penitentiary.

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