AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, SEP 19, 2005 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences thirteen prelates from the Conference of the Mexican Episcopate, on their "ad limina" visit:

    - Bishop Domingo Diaz Martinez of Tuxpan.

    - Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, archbishop of Mexico, accompanied by Auxiliary Bishops Marcelino Hernandez Rodriguez; Guillermo Rodrigo Teodoro Ortiz Mandragon; Felipe Tejeda Garcia M.Sp.S.; Francisco Clavel Gil; Rogelio Esquivel Medina; Jonas Guerrero Corona; Antonio Ortega Franco C.O.; and Victor Sanchez Espinosa; and by former Auxiliary Bishop Jose Luis Fletes Santana.

    - Bishop Constancio Miranda Weckmann of Atlacomulco.

    - Florencio Olvera Ochoa of Cuernavaca.

  On Saturday, September 17, he received in separate audiences:

 - Cardinal Friedrich Wetter, archbishop of Munich and Freising, Germany.

 - Eight prelates from the Conference of the Mexican Episcopate, on their "ad limina" visit:

    - Archbishop Sergio Obeso Rivera of Jalapa.

    - Bishop Rutilo Munoz Zamora of Coatzacoalcos, accompanied by Bishop emeritus Carlos Talavera Ramirez.

    - Bishop Eduardo Porfirio Patino Leal of Cordoba.

    - Bishop Hipolito Reyes Larios of Orizaba.

    - Bishop Lorenzo Cardenas Aregullin of Papantla.

    - Bishop Jose Trinidad Zapata Ortiz of San Andres Tuxtla, accompanied by Bishop emeritus Guillermo Ranzahuer Gonzalez.
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