AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, 5 JUN 2009 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

- Peter Harry Carstensen, minister-president of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, accompanied by an entourage.

- Four prelates from the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela on their "ad limina" visit:

- Bishop Cesar Ramon Ortega Herrera of Barcelona.

- Bishop Felipe Gonzalez Gonzalez O.F.M. Cap., apostolic vicar of Tucupita.

- Bishop Ramon Antonio Linares Sandoval of Barinas.

- Bishop Mariano Jose Parra Sandoval of Ciudad Guayana.

- Archbishop Joseph Spiteri, apostolic nuncio to Sri Lanka, accompanied by members of his family.

This evening he is scheduled to receive in audience Cardinal Sean Baptist Brady, archbishop of Armagh, Ireland, accompanied by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin, Ireland.

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