AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, NOV 20, 2006 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences nine prelates from the German Bishops' Conference, on their "ad limina" visit:

    - Bishop Heinrich Mussinghoff of Aachen.

    - Bishop Reinhard Marx of Trier, accompanied by Auxiliary Bishops Robert Brahm, Jorg Michael Peters and Stephan Ackermann.

    - Bishop Felix Genn of Essen, accompanied by Auxiliary Bishops Franz Grave and Franz Vorrath.

    - Bishop Piotr Kryk, apostolic exarch for the Ukrainian faithful of Byzantine rite resident in Germany and Scandinavia.

  On Saturday, November 18, he received in separate audiences seven prelates from the German Bishops' Conference, on their "ad limina" visit:

    - Bishop Reinhard Lettmann of Munster, accompanied by Auxiliary Bishops Heinrich Timmerevers, Friedrich Ostermann, Heinrich Janssen, Josef Voss and Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst.

 - Msgr. Johann Limbacher, apostolic administrator of Eichstatt.
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