AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, 25 FEB 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

 - His Beatitude Cardinal Nasrallah Pierre Sfeir, patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, Lebanon.

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

    - Archbishop Ramon C. Arguelles of Lipa.

    - Archbishop Romulo G. Valles of Zamboanga.

    - Archbishop Jesus A. Dosado C.M. of Ozamiz.

    - Archbishop Antonio J. Ledesma S.J. of Cagayan de Oro.

 - Bishop Pierre Morissette of Saint-Jerome, president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, accompanied by Archbishop Richard William Smith of Edmonton, vice president, and by Msgr. Patrick Power, secretary general.

  This evening he is scheduled to receive in audience Cardinal Ivan Dias, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples.
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