Zagreb, (IKA) – At the encounter with persons from public life, culture, science, politics, business, sports, representatives of religious communities and the diplomatic corps at the Croatian National Theater on Saturday, June 4, Pope Benedict XVI will personally meet with 16 persons.
The Pope will personally meet with the Serbian Orthodox Metropolitan of Zagreb-Ljubljana and All of Italy, Jovan Pavlović; the Chief Rabbi of the Coordination of Jewish Communities in Croatia, Lucian Moše Prelević; the President of the Islamic Community in Croatia, Mufti Ševko Omerbašić; the Speaker of the Croatian Parliament, Luka Bebić; the President of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Academician Zvonko Kusić; the Rector of the University of Zagreb, Prof. Dr. Aleksa Bjeliš; the Ambassador of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Baron Nikola Adamovich de Csespin; the Vice President of the Croatian Paneuropean Union, Prof. Nevenka Nekić; the Alpine skier Ivica Kostelić; the Director of the Croatian Construction Institute (IGH), Prof. Dr. Jure Radić; the geneticist Dr. Tomislav Domazet-Lošo; the Principal of the VIIth Gymnasium in Zagreb, Prof. Ljilja Vokić; the Rector of the University of Rijeka, Prof. Dr. Pero Lučin; the businessman Ivo Sadrić, Librarian and Professor Emeritus of the Catholic Faculty of Theology of the University of Zagreb, Fra Bonaventura Duda; and the Former Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to the Holy See, Prof. Dr. Emilio Marin.