The Holy Father received in audience:
- Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments;
- Antonio Zanardi Landi, ambassador of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta;
-Winfried Kreschmannn, minister president of Baden-Württemberg, with his wife and entourage;
- Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi, apostolic nuncio in Canada;
- Archbishop Francisco Montecillo Padilla, apostolic nuncio in Kuwait, Bahrein, Yemen, and Arab Emirates, and apostolic delegate in the Arabian Peninsula.