This morning, the Holy Father Francis received in audience:

- H.E. Mr. Faustin Archange Touadéra, President of the Central African Republic, and entourage;

- His Eminence Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, archbishop of Naples, Italy;

- H.E. Msgr. Paolo Rocco Gualtieri, titular archbishop of Sagona, apostolic nuncio in Madagascar, the Seychelles and Mauritius; apostolic delegate in the Comoro Islands; with the functions of apostolic delegate in La Réunion;

- H.E. Msgr. Michael Louis Fitzgerald, M. Afr., titular archbishop of Nepte, apostolic nuncio;