AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, JUN 11, 2004 (VIS) - Today the Holy Father received in separate  audiences:

- Nine prelates from the Episcopal Conference of  Colombia on their "ad limina" visit:

    - Archbishop Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo, P.S.S., archbishop of Medellin, accompanied by Auxiliary Bishops Gonzalo de Jesus Rivera Gomez, Jorge Ivan Castaño Rubio, C.M.F., Gilberto Jimenez Narvaez.

    - Bishop Jose Soleibe Arbelaez of Caldas.

    - Archbishop Ruben Salazar Gomez of Barranquilla, accompanied by Auxiliary Bishop Luis Antonio Nova Rocha.

    - Bishop Hugo Eugenio Puccini Banfi of Santa Marta.

- Bishop Oscar Jose Velez Isaza, C.M.F., of Valledupar.

- Cardinal Camillo Ruini, president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, accompanied by Bishop Giuseppe Betori, secretary general of the same conference.
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