Audiences

Vatican City, 1 December 2014 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father received in audience:

- Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okolo, apostolic nuncio in the Dominican Republic and apostolic delegate in Porto Rico;

- Archbishop Jean-Marie Speich, apostolic nuncio in Ghana;

- Marco Vinicio Vargas Pereira, new ambassador of Costa Rica to the Holy See, presenting his credential letters;

- Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church;

- Archbishop Stephan Burger of Freiburg im Breisgau, Federal Republic of Germany;

- Thirteen prelates of the Swiss Bishops' Conference, on their “ad Limina” visit:

- Bishop Felix Gmur of Basel, with his auxiliaries, Bishop Martin Gachter and Bishop Denis Theurillat;

- Bishop Vitus Huonder of Chur, with his auxiliary Bishop Marian Eleganti;

- Bishop Charles Morerod, O.P., of Lausanne, Geneve et Fribourg, with his auxiliaries, Bishop Pierre Farine and Bishop Alain de Raemy;

- Bishop Valerio Lazzeri of Lugano;

- Bishop Markus Buchel of Sankt Gallen;

- Bishop Jean-Marie Lovey, C.R.B. of Sion;

- Fr. Urban Federer, O.S.B., abbot of Maria Einsiedeln, and

- Bishop Joseph Roduit, abbot of Saint-Maurice.