VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXVI - # 8
DATE 15-01-2016

Summary:
- Audiences
- Other Pontifical Acts

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 Audiences
 Vatican City, 15 January 2016 (VIS) - Today, the Holy Father received in
audience:
 - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation
of Peoples;
 - Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto, apostolic nuncio in Israel and in Cyprus;
apostolic delegate in Jerusalem and in Palestine;
 - Archbishop Luigi Pezzuto, apostolic nuncio in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in
Montenegro;
 - Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google;
 - Fr. Pedro Aguado Cuesta, prepositor general of the Order of Poor Clerics
Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools;
 - John Anthony Gerard McCarthy, ambassador of Australia to the Holy See, on
his
farewell visit.

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 Other Pontifical Acts
 Vatican City, 15 January 2016 (VIS) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop
Domenico Cornacchia of Lucera - Troia, Italy, as bishop of
Molfetta-Ruvo-Giovinazzo-Terlizzi (area 442, population 133,317, Catholics
132,503, priests 103, permanent deacons 10, religious 153), Italy.

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