AUDIENCES

Vatican City, 7 February 2014 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father received in audience:

- Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, S.D.B., of Santiago de Chile, Chile, president of the Permanent Committee for the Episcopal Conference of Chile, accompanied by Bishop Alejandro Goic Karmelic of Rancagua, vice president; Archbishop Cristian Caro Cordero of Puerto Montt, member; Archbishop Fernando Natalio Chomali Garib of Concepcion, member; and Bishop Ignacio Francisco Ducasse Medina of Valdivia, secretary general.

- Gjoko Gjorgjevski, ambassador of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the Holy See, on his farewell visit.

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

- Archbishop Jozef Piotr Kupny of Wroclaw, Breslavia, with his auxiliary, Bishop Andrzej Siemieniewski;

- Bishop Stefan Cichy of Legnica, with his auxiliary, Bishop Marek Mendyk;

- Bishop Ignacy Dec of Swidnica, with his auxiliary Bishop Adam Balabuch;

- Archbishop Wiktor Pawel Skworc of Katowice;

- Bishop Jan Kopiec of Gliwice, with his auxiliary, Bishop Gerard Alfons Kusz;

- Bishop Andrzej Czaja of Opole, with his auxiliary, Bishop Pawel Stobrawa;

- Archbishop Waclaw Depo of Czestochowa;

- Bishop Henryk Marian Tomasik of Radom, with his auxiliary Bishop Adam Odzimek;

- Bishop Grzegorz Kaszak of Sosnowiec.