AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, 15 MAR 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

- Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, archbishop of Genoa, Italy, president of the Italian Episcopal conference.

- Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, major archbishop of Kyiv-Halyc, Ukraine.

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

- Four prelates of the Conference of Bishops of Burkina Faso and Niger, on their "ad limina" visit:

- Archbishop Anselme Titianma Sanon of Bobo-Dioulasso.

- Bishop Basile Tapsoba of Koudougou.

- Wenceslas Compaore of Manga.

- Bishop Lucas Kalfa Sanou of Banfora.

On Saturday 13 March he received in separate audiences

- Four prelates from the Sudan Catholic Bishops' Conference, on their "ad limina" visit:

- Cardinal Gabriel Zubeir Wako, archbishop of Khartoum, accompanied by Auxiliary Bishop Daniel Marco Kur Adwok.

- Bishop Macram Max Gassis M.C.C.J. of El Obeid, accompanied by Bishop Antonio Menegazzo M.C.C.J., apostolic administrator "sede plena et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis".

- Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga S.D.B., archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
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