AUDIENCES

Vatican City, 6 February 2014 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father received in audience:

- Bishop Zbigniew Kiernikowski of Siedlce, Poland.

- Wafaa Ashraf Moharram Bassim, the new ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the Holy See, presenting her credential letters.

- Archbishop Franco Coppola, apostolic nuncio to Burundi.

- Nineteen prelates from the Polish Episcopal Conference on their “ad limina” visit:

- Archbishop Jozef Michalik of Przemysl of the Latins, with his auxiliaries, Bishop Adam Szal and Stanislaw Jamrozek;

- Bishop Jan Franciszek Watroba of Rzeszow;

- Bishop Marian Rojek of Zamosc-Lubaczow;

- Archbishop Stanislaw Budzik of Lublin, with his auxiliaries, Bishop Mieczislaw Cislo, Bishop Artur Grzegorz Mizinski, and Bishop Jozef Wrobel;

- Bishop Krzysztof Nitkiewicz of Sandomierz, with his former auxiliary, Bishop Edward Marian Frankowski;

- Bishop Zbigniew Kiernikowski of Siedlce with his auxiliary, Bishop Piotr Sawczuk;

- Archbishop Edward Ozorowski of Bialystok, with his auxiliary, Bishop Henryk Ciereszco;

- Bishop Antoni Pacyfik Dydycz of Drohiczyn;

- Bishop Janusz Boguslaw Stepnowski of Lomza, with his auxiliary, Bishop Tadeusz Bronakowski and Bishop emeritus Stanislaw Stefanek.