AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, 8 SEP 2008 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences four prelates from the Paraguayan Episcopal Conference, on their "ad limina" visit:

    - Archbishop Eustaquio Pastor Cuquejo Verga C.SS.R. of Asuncion.

    - Bishop Candido Cardenas Villalba of Benjamin Aceval.

    - Bishop Catalino Claudio Gimenez Medina of Caacupe.

    - Bishop Celso Yegros Estigarribia of Carapegua.

  This evening he is scheduled to receive in separate audiences three prelates from the Paraguayan Episcopal Conference, on their "ad limina" visit:

    - Bishop Rogelio Ricardo Livieres Plano of Ciudad del Este.

    - Bishop Zacarias Ortiz Rolon S.D.B. of Concepcion.

    - Bishop Juan Bautista Gavilan Velasquez of Coronel Oviedo.

  On Saturday 6 September, he received in separate audiences four prelates from the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua, on their "ad limina" visit:

    - Bishop Cesar Bosco Vivas Robelo of Leon en Nicaragua.

    - Bishop Jorge Solorzano Perez of Matagalpa.

    - Bishop Paul Ervin Schmitz Simon O.F.M. Cap., apostolic vicar of Bluefields, accompanied by Auxiliary Bishop and Vicar Delegate David Albin Zywiec O.F.M. Cap.
AL/.../...                                VIS 20080908 (180)