Audiences

Vatican City, 20 February 2015 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father received in audience:

- Prelates of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, on their “ad Limina” visit:

- His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, major archbishop of Kyiv-Halyc, accompanied by his auxiliaries, Bishop Bohdan Dzyurakh and Bishop Yosyf Milan;

- Bishop Stepan Meniok, archiepiscopal exarch of Donetsk;

- Bishop Mykhaylo Bubniy, archiepiscopal exarch of Odessa;

- Bishop Josaphat Oleh Hovera, archiepiscopal exarch of Lutsk;

- Archbishop Volodymyr Viytyshyn of Ivano-Frankivsk, accompanied by his auxiliary, Bishop Yosafat Moshchych;

- Bishop Vasyl Ivasiuk, of Kololyia-Chernivtsi;

- Bishop Ihor Voznyak, archbishop of Lviv of the Ukrainians, accompanied by his auxiliary, Bishop Venedykt Aleksiychuk;

- Bishop Jaroslav Pryriz of Sambir-Drohobych, accompanied by his auxiliary, Bishop Hryhoriy Komar;

- Bishop Mykhaylo Koltun of Sokal-Zhovkva;

- Bishop Taras Senkiv of Stryi. accompanied by his auxiliary, Bishop Bohdan Manyshyn;

- Archbishop Vasyl Semeniuk of Ternopil-Zboriv;

- Bishop Dmytro Hryhorak, Vescovo di Buchach;

- Bishop Vasyl Tuchapets, archiepiscopal exarch of Kharkiv;

- Bishop Dionisio Lachovicz, apostolic visitator for the Ukrainian faithful of Byzantine Rite resident in Italy and Spain;

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- Bishop Milan Sasik of Mukachevo of Byzantine Rite, accompanied by his auxiliary, Bishop Nil Yuriy Lushchak:

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Prelates of the Conference of Roman Catholic Bishops in Ukraine on their “ad Limina” visit:

- Archbishop Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki, of Lviv of the Latins;

- Bishop Leonid Dubrawski of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, accompanied by his auxiliary, Bishop Radoslaw Zmitrowicz;

- Bishop Stanislav Szyrokoradiuk of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia, accompanied by Bishop emeritus Marian Buczek and his auxiliary, Bishop Jan Sobilo;

- Archbishop-Bishop Petro Herkulan Malchuk of Kyiv-Zhytomir;

- Bishop Vitaliy Skomarovskyi of Lutsk;

- Bishop Antal Majnek of Mukachevo of the Latins;

- Bishop Bronislaw Bernacki of Odessa-Simferopol, with his auxiliary Bishop Jacek Pyl.