AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, OCT 20, 2005 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

 - Cardinal Nasrallah Pierre Sfeir, patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, Lebanon.

 - Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil, C.SS.R., major archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly of the Syro-Malabars, India.

 - Cardinal Miguel Obando Bravo S.D.B., archbishop emeritus of Managua, Nicaragua.

 - Cardinal Janis Pujats, metropolitan archbishop of Riga, Latvia.

 - Cardinal Paul Shan Kuo-hsi S.J., bishop of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

 - Cardinal Marc Ouellet, P.S.S., metropolitan archbishop of Quebec, Canada.

 - Archbishop Joseph Powathil of Changanacherry of the Syro-Malabars, India.
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