Audiences
Saturday, Jan. 2:
• Lucas Cardinal Moreira Neves, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.
• Archbishop Marcello Zago, secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Monday, Jan.4:
• William Cardinal Baum, Penitentiary Major.
• Archbishop Renato Martino, Holy See permanent observer to the United Nations in New York.
• Bishop Jan Hirka of Presov, Slovak Republic (Byzantine rite).
• Bishop Jozef Zlatnansky, secretary of the permanent inter-dicasterial Commission for the Church in Eastern Europe.
• Fr. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, superior general of the Society of Jesus.
• Eduardo Cardinal Martinez Somalo, prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, with his secretary and under-secretaries.
Tuesday, Jan. 5:
• Archbishop Agostino Cacciavillan, president of the Administration for the Patrimony of the Apostolic See and former nuncio in the United States.
• Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, apostolic nuncio in the United States of America and permanent observer at the Organization of American States.
• Archbishop Francesco Marchisano, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Patrimony of the Church and of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology.
Thursday, Jan. 7:
• In separate audiences, the bishops ordained the previous day, with their families. (See story, this page.)
• Alfonso Cardinal Lopez Trujillo, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, with his secretary and under-secretary.
Friday, Jan. 8:
• Massimo D‘Alema, president of the Council of Ministers of Italy, with his wife and entourage.
• Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.