AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, 26 JAN 2009 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences four prelates from the Conference of Catholic Bishops of the Russian Federation, on their "ad limina" visit:

 - Archbishop Paolo Pezzi F.S.C.B. of the archdiocese of the Mother of God in Moscow.

 - Bishop Clemens Pickel of San Clement at Saratov.

 - Bishop Cyryl Klimowicz of St. Joseph in Irkutsk, apostolic administrator "ad nutum Sanctae Sedis" of the apostolic prefecture of Yuzhno Sakhalinsk.

 - Bishop Joseph Werth S.J. of the Transfiguration at Novosibirsk, ordinary for faithful of the Byzantine rite resident in Russia.

  On Saturday 24 January he received in separate audiences:

 - Archbishop Philip Edward Wilson of Adelaide, Australia, president of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference.

 - Bishop Petros Hanna Issa Al-Harboli of Zaku of the Chaldeans, Iraq, on his "ad limina" visit.

 - Bishop Michel Kassarji of Beirut of the Chaldeans, Lebanon, on his "ad limina" visit.

 - Bishop Youssef Ibrahim Sarraf of Le Caire of the Chaldeans, Egypt, on his "ad limina" visit.

 - Bishop Antoine Audo S.J. of Alep of the Chaldeans, Syria, on his "ad limina" visit.

 - Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.
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