AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, 1 FEB 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

 - Seven prelates from the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, on their "ad limina" visit:

    - Bishop John Hine, administrator of the archdiocese of Southwark, accompanied by Auxiliary Bishops Patrick K. Lynch SS.CC. and Paul Hendricks.

    - Bishop Michael Charles Evans of East Anglia.

    - Bishop Peter Doyle of Northampton.

    - Bishop Malcolm Patrick McMahon of Nottingham.

    - Bishop Hlib Lonchyna M.S.U., apostolic administrator of the apostolic exarchate for Ukrainian faithful of Byzantine rite resident in Great Britain.

  On Saturday 31 January he received in separate audiences:

 - Cardinal George Pell, archbishop of Sydney, Australia.

 - Seven prelates from the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, on their "ad limina" visit:

    - Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham, accompanied by Auxiliary Bishops David Christopher McGough and William Kenney C.P.

    - Bishop Kieran Thomas Conry of Arundel and Brighton.

    - Bishop Hugh Christopher Budd of Plymouth.

    - Bishop Roger Francis Crispian Hollis of Portsmouth.

    - Bishop Thomas McMahon of Brentwood.

 - Archbishop Petar Rajic, apostolic nuncio to Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar, and apostolic delegate to the Arabian Peninsula, accompanied by members of his family.

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