AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, 2 SEP 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences eight prelates of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India, on their "ad limina" visit:

    - Bishop Lourdes Daniel of Nashik.

    - Bishop Thomas Dabre of Poona, accompanied by Bishop emeritus Valerian D'Souza.

    - Archbishop-Bishop Felix Anthony Machado of Vasai.

    - Bishop Edwin Colaco of Aurangabad.

    - Bishop Thomas Ignatius Macwan of Ahmedabad.

    - Bishop Godfrey de Rozario, S.J., of Baroda.

  Yesterday afternoon he received in audience Cardinal Joachim Meisner, archbishop of Cologne, Germany.
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