AUDIENCES

Vatican City, 8 February 2013 (VIS) – This morning, the Holy Father received in separate audiences:

- Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk, archbishop of Utrecht, Holland,

ten prelates from the Lazio region of the Italian Episcopal Conference on their "ad limina" visit:

- Archbishop Vincenzo Pelvi, military ordinary for Italy,

- Bishop Vincenzo Apicella of Velletri-Segni,

- Bishop Marcello Semeraro of Albano,

- Bishop Gino Reali of Porto-Santa Rufina,

- Bishop Ernesto Mandara of Sabina-Poggio Mirteto,

- Bishop Domenico Sigalini of Palestrina,

- Bishop Mauro Parmeggiani of Tivoli,

- Bishop Raffaello Martinelli of Frascati,

- Abbot Mauro Meacci, O.S.B., of Subiaco,

- Abbot Emiliano Fabbricatore, O.S.B.I., archimandrite of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata Abbey (Italo-Albanese), and

- Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals.