AUDIENCES

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

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

    - Fr. D. Kassian Lauterer O. Cist., abbot of the territorial abbey of Wettingen-Mehrerau.

    - Archbishop Alois Kothgasser S.D.B., of Salzburg, accompanied by Auxiliary Bishop Andreas Laun O.S.F.S.

    - Bishop Elmar Fischer of Feldkirch.

    - Bishop Egon Kapellari of Graz-Seckau, accompanied by Auxiliary Bishop Franz Lackner O.F.M.

  This evening he is scheduled to receive in audience Cardinal Georges Marie Martin Cottier O.P., pro-theologian of the Papal Household.

  At the conclusion of the general audience on Wednesday, November 2, the Holy Father received in separate audiences:

 - Cardinal Jozef Tomko, president of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses, and special envoy to the first International Eucharistic Congress for Universities.

 - Archbishop Eliseo Antonio Ariotti, apostolic nuncio to Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.
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