AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, 28 JAN 2008 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

 - Eight prelates of the Greek-Catholic Church of Ukraine, on their "ad limina" visit:

    - Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, major archbishop of Kyiv-Halyc of the Ukrainians, accompanied by Auxiliary Bishops Bohdan Dzyurakh C.SS.R., Dionisio Lachovicz O.S.B.M., and Wasyl Ihor Medwit O.S.B.M., and by Bishop Hlib Lonchyna, apostolic visitor for Greek-Catholic Ukrainian faithful in Italy.

    - Archbishop Ihor Vozniak C.SS.R. of Lviv of the Ukrainians.

    - Bishop Milan Sasik S.M., apostolic administrator "ad nutum Sanctae Sedis" of Mukacheve of the Byzantine rite.

    - Fr. Demetrius Hryhorak, apostolic administrator "ad nutum Sanctae Sedis" of Buchach of the Ukraninas.

 - Archbishop Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising, Germany.

  On Saturday, 26 January, he received in separate audiences:

 - Archbishop Henryk Jozef Nowacki, apostolic nuncio to Nicaragua.

 - Carlos Luis Custer, ambassador of Argentina to the Holy See, on his farewell visit.

 - Fr. Adolfo Nicolas S.J., superior general of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).

 - Bishop Antoni Stankiewicz, dean of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota.

 - Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.
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