AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, DEC 6, 2004 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

- Six prelates from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (Region VIII) on their "ad limina" visit:

    - Archbishop Harry Joseph Flynn of St. Paul and Minneapolis, with Auxiliary Bishop Richard Edmund Pates.

    - Bishop Paul Albert Zipfel of Bismarck.

    - Bishop Victor Herman Balke of Crookston.

    - Bishop Dennis Marion Schnurr of Duluth.

    - Bishop Samuel J. Aquila of Fargo.

- Birger Dan Nielsen, ambassador of Denmark, accompanied by his wife on their farewell visit.

  On Saturday December 4, the Holy Father received in separate audiences:

- Archbishop Luigi Gatti, apostolic nuncio in Lebanon.

- Archbishop Thomas E. Gullickson, apostolic nuncio in Trinidad, Tobago, Bahamas, Dominica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadine.

- Three prelates from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (Region V) on their "ad limina" visit:

    - Bishop Joseph Latino, with Bishop Emeritus William Russel Houck.

    - Msgr. David R. Choby of Nashville.

- Archbishop Francisco Javier Lozano, apostolic nuncio in Croatia.

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