Audiences

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

- Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelisation

- Sixteen prelates of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Japan, on their “ad Limina” visit:

- Archbishop Joseph Mitsuaki Takami of Nagasaki;

- Bishop Dominic Ryoji Miyahara of Fukuoka;

- Bishop Paul Kenjiro Koriyama of Kagoshima;

- Bishop Berard Toshio Oshikawa of Naha;

- Bishop Paul Sueo Hamaguchi of Oita;

- Archbishop Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda of Osaka, with his auxiliary, Bishop Michael Goro Matsuura;

- Bishop Paul Yoshinao Otsuka of Kyoto;

- Bishop Augustinus Jun-ichi Nomura of Nagoya;

- Bishop John Eijiro Suwa of Takamatsu;

- Archbishop Peter Takeo Okada of Tokyo, apostolic administrator “sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis” of Saitama, with his auxiliary, Bishop James Kazuo Koda;

- Bishop Tarcisius Isao Kikuchi of Niigata;

- Bishop Bernard Taiji Katsuya of Sapporo;

- Bishop Martin Tetsuo Hiraga of Sendai; and

- Bishop Rafael Masahiro Umemura of Yokohama.

- Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.