AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, OCT 23, 2003 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences eleven prelates from the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales on their "ad limina" visit:

- Bishop John Patrick Crowley of Middlesbrough.
- Bishop Terence John Brain of Salford.

- Archbishop Michael George Bowen of Southwark, accompanied by Auxiliary Bishops Howard George Tripp and John Hine, and Auxiliary Bishop emeritus Charles Joseph Henderson.

- Bishop Kieran Thomas Conry of Arundel and Brighton.

- Bishop Hugh Christopher Budd of Plymouth.

- Bishop Roger Francis Crispian Hollis of Portsmouth.

- Archbishop Thomas Matthew Burns, S.M., military ordinary.

- Bishop Paul Patrick Chomnycky, O.S.B.M., apostolic exarch for the faithful of the Byzantine rite resident in Great Britain.

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