AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, JUN 3, 2005 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

 - Six prelates from the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, on their "ad limina" visit:

    - Cardinal Wilfred Fox Napier O.F.M., archbishop of Durban, South Africa, and apostolic administrator "sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis" of Umzimkulu, South Africa, accompanied by Auxiliary Bishop Jabulani Nxumalo O.M.I.

    - Bishop Michael Gower Coleman of Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

    - Bishop Michael Vincent Paschal Rowland O.F.M., of Dundee, South Africa.

    - Bishop William Slattery O.F.M., of Kokstad, South Africa.

    - Bishop Oswald Georg Hirmer of Umtata, South Africa.

 - Two prelates of the Lesotho Catholic Bishops' Conference, on their "ad limina" visit:

    - Archbishop Bernard Mohlalisi O.M.I., of Maseru.

    - Bishop Paul Khoarai of Leribe.

  This evening, he is scheduled to receive Archbishop William Joseph Levada, emeritus of San Francisco, U.S.A., and prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, accompanied by Archbishop Angelo Amato S.D.B., secretary of the same congregation.
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