The Holy Father received in audience:

- His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Holy See of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church;

- Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith;

- Archbishop Edmundo Luis Flavio Abastoflor Montero of La Paz, Bolivia, president of the Governing Council of the Foundation “Populorum Progressio”, with the vice president Archbishop Oscar Urbina Ortega of Villavicencio, Colombia and Msgr. Segundo Tejado Muñoz, representative of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum”.