AUDIENCES

Vatican City,  (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in audience twelve prelates of the Episcopal Conference of France, on their "ad limina" visit:

- Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois, archbishop of Paris, accompanied by Auxiliary Bishops Jerome Beau, Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, and Renauld de Dinechin.

- Bishop Michel Santier of Creteil.

- Bishop Michel Dubost of Evry-Corbeil-Essonnes.

- Bishop Jean-Yves Nahmias of Meaux.

- Bishop Gerard Daucort of Nanterre.

- Bishop Pascal Delannoy of Saint-Denis.

- Bishop Eric Aumonier of Versailles.

- Bishop Luc Ravel C.R.S.V., military ordinary.

- Bishop Gregoire Ghabroyan of Saint-Croix de Paris of the Armenians, and apostolic visitor to Armenian Catholic faithful resident in Western Europe without their own ordinary.

This evening he is scheduled to receive in audience Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.