AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, JUL 1, 2003 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

- The Presidency of the Brazilian Episcopal Conference:

- Cardinal Geraldo Majella Agnelo, archbishop of Sao Salvador da Bahia, president.

- Bishop Antonio Celso Queiroz of Catanduva, vice-president.

- Bishop Odilo Pedro Scherer, auxiliary of Sao Paulo, secretary general.

- Archbishop Adriano Bernardini, apostolic nuncio in Argentina.

- Three prelates from the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India on their "ad limina" visit:

- Archbishop Joji Marampudi of Hyderbad.

- Bishop Thumma Bala of Warangal.

- Bishop John Baptist Sequeira of Chikmagalur.

- Cardinal Paul Poupard, president of the Pontifical Council of Culture, accompanied by Frs. Bernard Ardura, O. Praem., and Fabio Duque Jaramillo, O.F.M., respectively secretary and undersecretary of the same pontifical council.

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