AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, SEP 26, 2005 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences nine prelates from the Conference of the Mexican Episcopate, on their "ad limina" visit:

    - Archbishop Felipe Aguirre Franco of Acapulco, apostolic administrator of Chilpancingo-Chilapa, accompanied by Auxiliary Bishop Juan Navarro Castellanos.

    - Bishop Salvador Flores Huerta of Ciudad Lazaro Cardenas.

    - Bishop Alejo Zavala Castro of Tlapa.

    - Archbishop Jose Luis Chavez Botello of Antequera, Oaxaca.

    - Bishop Hermenegildo Ramirez Sanchez M.J., prelate of Huautla.

    - Bishop Luis Felipe Gallardo Martin del Campo S.D.B., prelate of Mixes.

    - Bishop Eduardo Cirilo Carmona Ortega of Puerto Escondido.

    - Bishop Rogelio Cabrera Lopez of Tuxtla Gutierrez.

  On Saturday, September 24, he received in separate audiences:

 - Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini S.J., archbishop emeritus of Milan, Italy.

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

    - Archbishop Emilio Carlos Berlie Belaunzaran of Yucatan, accompanied by Auxiliary Bishops Ramon Castro Castro and Jose Rafael Palma Capetillo.

 - Goyal Praveen Lal, ambassador of India, on his farewell visit.

 - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
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