AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, FEB 17, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

- Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, president of the Republic of Chile, accompanied by his wife and an entourage.
- Cardinal Jozef Tomko, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. - Bishop Jan Hirka of Presov of Byzantine rite Catholics, Slovakia.
- Nicola Cabibbo and Msgr. Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, respectively president and chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

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