AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, NOV 15, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

- Seven prelates from the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (Eastern Region II) on their "ad limina" visit:

- Bishop Diogo Reesink, O.F.M., of Teofilo Otoni.

- Bishop Waldemar Chaves de Araujo of Sao Joao del Rei.

- Bishop Joe Alberto Moura, C.S.S., of Uberlandia.

- Bishop Emanuel Messias de Oliveira of Guanhaes.

- Bishop Diamantino Prata de Carvalho, O.F.M., of Campanha.

- Bishop Celio de Oliveira Goulart, O.F.M., of Leopoldina.

- Bishop Guilherme Porto of Sete Lagoas.

- Bishop Jacques Berthelet, C.S.V., of Saint-Jean Longueil, president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, accompanied by Archbishop Brendan Michael O'Brien of Saint John's, Newfoundland, vice president and Msgr. Peter Schonenbach, secretary.

- Cardinal Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic, archbishop of Toronto, Canada, accompanied by Bishop Francois Lapierre, P.M.E., of Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada and Fr. Thomas Rosica.

This afternoon the Holy Father is scheduled to receive Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

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