AUDIENCES

Vatican City, 20 May 2013 (VIS) – This morning the Holy Father received in separate audiences:

nine prelates from the Sicilia Region of the Italian Episcopal Conference on their "ad limina" visit:

   - Archbishop Salvatore Gristina of Catania,

   - Archbishop Salvatore Pappalardo of Siracusa,

   - Archbishop Calogero La Piana, S.D.B., of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela,

   - Bishop Ignazio Zambito of Patti,

   - Bishop Paolo Urso of Ragusa,

   - Bishop Salvatore Muratore of Nicosia,

   - Bishop Antonio Stagliano of Noto,

   - Bishop Calogero Peri, O.F.M. Cap., of Caltagirone, and

   - Bishop Antonino Raspanti of Acireale.

Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, president emeritus of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei”, and

Cardinal Robert Sarah, president of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum”.

This afternoon in the Domus Sanctae Marthae chapel he is scheduled to receive nine prelates from the Sicilia Region of the Italian Episcopal Conference on their "ad limina" visit:

   - Cardinal Paolo Romeo, archbishop of Palermo and apostolic administrator "sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis" of the eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi (of the Italo-Albanians), with the auxiliary of Palermo:

   - Bishop Carmelo Cuttitta, titular of Novi,

   - Archbishop Francesco Montenegro of Agrigento,

   - Archbishop Michele Pennisi of Monreale,

   - Archbishop Alessandro Plotti, emeritus of Pisa and apostolic administrator "sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis" of Trapani,

   - Bishop Vincenzo Manzella of Cefalu,

   - Bishop Mario Russotto of Caltanissetta,

   - Bishop Domenico Mogavero of Mazara del Vallo, and

   - Msgr. Giovanni Bongiovanni, diocesan administrator of Piazza Armerina.

On Saturday, 18 May, the Holy Father received in separate audiences:

   - Archbishop Miroslaw Adamczyk, apostolic nuncio to Liberia and titular of Otriculum, and

   - Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.