AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, MAR 3, 2003 (VIS) - Today the Holy Father received in audience seven prelates from the Bishops' Conference of Scotland on their "ad limina" visit:

- Archbishop Mario Joseph Conti of Glasgow.

- Archbishop Keith Michael Patrick O'Brien of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh.

- Bishop Joseph Devine of Motherwell.

- Bishop Vincent Logan of Dunkeld.

- Bishop John Aloysius Mone of Paisley.

- Bishop Ian Murray of Argyll and The Isles.

- Msgr. Peter Moran, diocesan administrator of Aberdeen.

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

- Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, apostolic nuncio in Kazakhstan, Tadjikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.

- Bishop Benito Stanislao Andreotti, O.S.B., ordinary abbot of Subiaco, Italy, accompanied by Fr. Dom Mauro Meacci, O.S.B., abbot of the territorial abbey of Subiaco.

- Prof. Lorenzo Ornaghi, rector of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart.

- Dr. Vitalij Ignatenko, president of the Russian News Agency ITAR-TASS, accompanied by Ara Abramjan, president of the Federal Organization "Union of Armenians in Russia".

- Cardinal Giovanni Batttista Re, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.

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