AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, 19 JAN 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in audience:

 - Seven prelates of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, on their "ad limina" visit:

 - Archbishop Edwin Frederick O'Brien, apostolic administrator of Baltimore and pro-grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, accompanied by Auxiliary Bishops Mitchell Thomas Rozanski and Denis James Madden.

    - Bishop Paul Stephen Loverde of Arlington.

    - Bishop Francis Xavier DiLorenzo of Richmond.

    - Bishop Michael J. Bransfield of Wheeling-Charleston.

    - Bishop William Francis Malooly of Wilmington.

 - Bishop Gregor Maria Hanke O.S.B. of Eichstatt, Germany.
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