AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, OCT 7, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

- Cardinal Ricardo Maria Carles Gordo, archbishop of Barcelona, Spain.
- Archbishop Manuel Montiero de Castro, apostolic nuncio in Spain and in the Principality of Andorra.
- Archbishop Francesco Marchisano, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Patrimony of the Church and of the Pontifical Commission of Sacred Archeology, archpriest of the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica, vicar general of His Holiness for Vatican City, and president of the Fabric of St. Peter's, together with Bishop Vittorio Lanzani, delegate of the Fabric of St. Peter's and vicar of the archpriest of the Vatican basilica.

On Saturday, October 5, he received in separate audiences:

- Ana Palacio Vallelersundi, foreign minister of Spain, and an entourage.
- Archbishop Mario Zenari, apostolic nuncio in Ivory Coast, Niger and Burkina Faso.
- Five prelates from the Episcopal Conference of Chile on their "ad limina" visit:
- Bishop Juan Luis Ysern de Arce of San Carlos de Ancud, accompanied by his coadjutor, Bishop Juan Florindo Agurto Munoz.
- Bishop Tomas Osvaldo Gonzalez Morales.
- Bishop Sixto Jose Parzinger Foidl of Villarrica.
- Bishop Alejandro Coic Karmelic of Osorno.
- Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.

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