This morning the Holy Father received in audience:

- Members of the “Pro Petri Sede” Association;

- Prelates of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (Region SUL 2) on their “ad limina Apostolorum” visit:

  - Archbishop Mauro Aparecido dos Santos of Cascavel;

  - Bishop Sérgio de Deus Borges of Foz do Iguaçu;

  - Bishop Edgar Xavier Ertl, S.A.C., of Palmas-Francisco Beltrão;

  - Bishop João Carlos Seneme, C.S.S., of Toledo;

  - Archbishop José Antõnio Peruzzo of Curitiba,

    with the auxiliaries:

    - Bishop Francisco Cota de Oliveira, titular of Fiorentino;

    - Bishop Amilton Manoel da Silva, C.P., titular of Tusuro;

    - Bishop Antõnio Wagner da Silva, C.S.I., titular of Guarapuava;

  - Bishop Edmar Perón of Paranaguá;

  - Bishop Sérgio Arthur Braschi of Ponta Grossa;

  - Bishop Celso Antônio Marchiori of São José dos Pinhais;

  - Bishop Walter Jorge Pinto of União da Vitória;

  - Archbishop Geremia Steinmetz of Londrina;

  - Bishop Carlos José de Oliveira of Apucarana;

  - Bishop Manoel João Francisco of Cornélio Procópio;

  - Bishop Antônio Braz Benevente of Jacarezinho;

  - Bishop João Mamede Filho, O.F.M. Conv., of Umuarama, apostolic administrator “sede vacante” of Maringá,

    with the emeritus of Maringá:

    - Archbishop Anuar Battisti;

  - Bishop Bruno Elizeu Versari of Mourão;

  - Bishop Mário Spaki of Paranavaí;

  - Archbishop Volodomer Koubetch, O.S.B.M., of São João Batista em Curitiba of the Ukrainians;

  - Bishop Meron Mazur, O.S.B.M., of Imaculada Conceiçao em Prudentópolis of the Ukrainians.