The Holy Father received in audience:

- Cardinal Marc Ouellet, P.S.S., prefect of the Congregation for Bishops;

- Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, Major Penitentiary, with Msgr. Krzysztof Jozef Nykiel, regent of the Apostolic Penitentiary;

- Archbishop Giampiero Gloder, president Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy.