Audiences
Monday, Nov. 23:
• Two prelates from the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands on their ad limina visit.
• Jan Cardinal Schotte, secretary general, Synod of Bishops with prelates from Samoa, New Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia, Guam, and Papua New Guinea participating in the synod for Oceania.
Tuesday, Nov. 24:
• Laurent Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, accompanied by his entourage.
• Prelates from Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, participating in the special assembly for Oceania of the Synod of Bishops.
Wednesday, Nov. 25:
• Prelates from Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands participating in the special assembly for Oceania of the Synod of Bishops.
Thursday, Nov. 26:
• Three prelates from the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands on their ad limina visit.
• Edmund Cardinal Szoka, president of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State.
• Prelates from Fiji, Kiribati, Mariana Islands, Micronesia, Somoa, American Samoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands, Marshall Islands, and Toketau Islands, participating in the Special Assembly for Oceania of the Synod of Bishops.
Friday, Nov. 27:
• Four prelates from the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
• Prelates from French Polynesia, Wallis Islands, Marquesas Islands, Mauritius, Vanuatu, Tuvalu Fiji, and New Caledonia, participating in the Special Assembly for Oceania of the Synod of Bishops.
Other Activities
Monday Nov. 23:
• Erected the ecclesiastical province of Coro, Venezuela, raising the diocese of the same name to metropolitan Church, and appointed Bishop Roberto Luckert Leon of Coro as metropolitan archbishop of the new province.
Tuesday, Nov. 24:
• Appointed Fr. Pierre Tran Dinh Tu, of bishop of Phu Cuong, Vietnam.
Thursday. Nov. 26:
• Appointed Professor Carl Anderson, vice president of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family at the branch in the United States of America, as member of the Pontifical Academy for Life.