AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, MAR 18, 2004 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate
audiences:

- Archbishop Manuel Monteiro de Castro, apostolic nuncio in Spain and Andorra.

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

- Bishop Brian Heenan of Rockhampton.

- Bishop William Martin Morris of Toowoomba.

- Bishop Michael Ernest Putney of Townsville.

- Cardinal Camillo Ruini, vicar general for the diocese of Rome and president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, with Archbishop Luigi Moretti, vice gerent of the diocese of Rome, accompanied by Fr. Tomasz Porzycki, pastor of St. Mary Mediator with the parochial vicar, Fr. Carmine Antonio Uras, parochial administrator of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque Parish, Fr. Duilio Colantini of St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish with the parochial vicar and Fr. Arnaldo D'Innocenza of St. Patrick Parish with the parochial vicar.
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