AUDIENCES

Vatican City, 14 February 2014 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father received in audience:

Fifteen prelates of the Czech Bishops' Conference on their “ad limina” visit:

- Cardinal Dominik Duka, O.P., archbishop of Prague, with his auxiliaries, Bishop Vaclav Maly and Bishop Karel Herbst, S.D.B., and Cardinal Miloslav Vlk, archbishop emeritus;

- Archbishop Jan Graubner of Olomouc;

- Bishop Vojtech Cikrle of Brno, with his former auxiliary, Bishop Petr Esterka;

- Bishop Frantisek Vaclav Lobkowicz, O. Praem., of Ostrava Opava;

- Bishop Jiri Padour, O.F.M. Cap., of Ceske Budejovice, with his auxiliary, Bishop Pavel Posad;

- Bishop Jan Vokal of Hradec Kralove, with his auxiliary, Bishop Josef Kajnek;

- Bishop Jan Baxant of Litomerice;

- Bishop Frantisek Radkovsky of Plzen; and

- Bishop Ladislav Hucko, apostolic esarch for Catholics of Byzantine rite resident in the Czech Republic.

- Moyses Louro de Azevedo Filho, founder and moderator general of the “Comunidade Catolica Shalom”, Brazil.