AUDIENCES

Vatican City, 31 January 2013 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father received in audience:

Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz, prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, and

ten prelates from the Campania region of the Italian Episcopal Conference on their "ad limina" visit:

   - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, archbishop of Naples, along with auxiliaries

   - Bishop Antonio Di Donna, titular of Castellum in Numidia, and

   - Bishop Lucio Lemmo, titular of Turres Ammeniae,

   - Archbishop Beniamino Depalma, C.M., of Nola,

   - Archbishop Francesco Alfano of Sorrento-Castellammare di Stabia,

   - Bishop Gennaro Pascarella of Pozzuoli,

   - Bishop Salvatore Giovanni Rinaldi of Acerra,

   - Bishop Angelo Spinillo of Aversa,

   - Bishop Valentino Di Cerbo of Alife-Caiazzo, and

   - Msgr. Giuseppe Regine, diocesan administrator of Ischia.