AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, 10 NOV 2008 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences nine prelates from the Bolivian Episcopal Conference, on their "ad limina" visit:

    - Cardinal Julio Terrazas Sandoval, archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, accompanied by Auxiliary Bishops Sergio Alfredo Gualberti Calandrina, Stanislaw Dowlaszewicz Billman O.F.M. Conv. and Braulio Saez Garcia O.C.D.

    - Archbishop Tito Solari Capellari S.D.B. of Cochabamba, accompanied by Auxiliary Archbishop Luis Sainz Hinojosa O.F.M.

    - Bishop Jorge Herbas Baderrama O.F.M., coadjutor prelate of Aiquile.

    - Bishop Jesus Juarez Parraga S.D.B. of El Alto.

    - Bishop Carlos Stetter of San Ignacio de Velsaco.

  On Saturday 8 November, he received in separate audiences

 - Archbishop Vernon James Weisgerber of Winnipeg, Bishop Pierre Morissette of Saint-Jerome and Msgr. Mario Paquette P.H., respectively president, vice-president and secretary of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.

 - Five prelates from the Bolivian Episcopal Conference, on their "ad limina" visit:

    - Bishop Gonzalo Ramiro del Castillo Crespo O.C.D., military ordinary.

    - Bishop Julio Maria Elias Montoya O.F.M., apostolic vicar of El Beni, accompanied by Auxiliary Bishop Francisco Focardi O.F.M. and former Auxiliary Bishop Manuel Eguiguren Galarraga O.F.M.

    - Bishop Antonio Bonifacio Reimann Panic O.F.M., apostolic vicar of Nuflo de Chavez.

 - Archbishop Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki of Lviv of the Latins, Ukraine.

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