AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, 23 MAY 2011 (VIS) - Today, in separate audiences, the Holy Father received two prelates from the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India on their ad limina visit:

  - Archbishop Thumma Bala of Hyderbad, and

  - Archbishop Mariadas Kagithapu, M.S.F.S., of Visakhapatnam.

On Saturday, 21 May, the Holy Father received, in separate audiences:

- Five prelates from the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India on their ad limina visit:

  - Bishop John Baptist Thakur, S.J., of Muzaffarpur,

  - Bishop Angelus Kujur, S.J., of Purnea,

  - Bishop Thomas Thiruthalil, C.M., of Balasore,

  - Bishop Sarat Chandra Nayak of Berhampur, and

  - Bishop Lucas Kerketta, S.V.D., of Sambalpur.

- as well as Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.
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