AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, 8 JUN 2009 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences ten prelates from the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela on their "ad limina" visit:

- Cardinal Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino, archbishop of Caracas, accompanied by Auxiliary Bishops Saul Figueroa Albornoz, Luis Armando Tineo Rivera, and Jesus Gonzalez de Zarate Salas, and by former Auxiliary Bishop Pedro Nicolas Bermudez Villamizar C.I.M.

- Bishop Ramiro Diaz Sanchez O.M.I., apostolic vicar of Machiques.

- Jose Luis Azuaje Ayala of El Vigia - San Carlos del Zulia.

- Bishop Tomas Jesus Zarraga Colmenares of San Carlos de Venezuela.

- Archbishop Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo of Merida, accompanied by Auxiliary Bishop Luis Alfonso Marquez Molina C.I.M.

On Saturday 6 June he received in separate audiences:

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

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

- Bishop Georges Kahhale Zouhairaty B.A., apostolic exarch for Greek Melkite faithful resident in Venezuela.

- Bishop Rafael Ramon Conde Alfonzo of Maracay.

- Bishop Jose Angel Divasson Cilvetti S.D.B., apostolic vicar of Puerto Ayacucho.

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