Today the Holy Father received in audience:

- His Eminence Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture;

- H.E. Msgr. Nicola Girasoli, titular archbishop of Egnazia Appula, apostolic nuncio in Peru;

- H.E. Msgr. Luciano Suriani, titular archbishop of Amiterno, apostolic nuncio in Serbia;

- Prelates of the Bolivian Episcopal Conference, on their “ad Limina Apostolorum” visit:

H.E. Msgr. Oscar Omar Aparicio Céspedes, archbishop of Cochabamba, with the archbishop emeritus:

H.E. Msgr. Tito Solari Capellari;

H.E. Msgr. Krzysztof Janusz Białasik Wawrowska, S.V.D., bishop of Oruro;

H.E. Msgr. Jorge Herbas Balderrama, O.F.M., prelate of Aiquile;

H.E. Msgr Edmundo Luis Flavio Abastoflor Montero, archbishop of La Paz

with the auxiliary bishops:

H.E. Msgr. Aurelio Pesoa Ribera, O.F.M., titular bishop of Leges;

H.E. Msgr. Jorge Ángel Saldías Pedraza, O.P., titular bishop of Felbes;

H.E. Msgr. Juan Vargas Aruquipa, bishop of Coroico;

H.E. Msgr. Eugenio Scarpellini, bishop of El Alto;

H.E. Msgr. Percy Lorenzo Galván Flores, prelate of Corocoro

with the bishop prelate emeritus:

H.E. Msgr. Toribio Ticona Porco;

H.E. Msgr. Sergio Alfredo Gualberti Calandrina, archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra

with the auxiliary bishops:

H.E. Msgr. Braulio Sáez García, O.C.D., titular bishop of Raso;

H.E. Msgr. Stanisław Dowlaszewicz Bilman, O.F.M. Conv.,titular bishop of Tigimma;

H.E. Msgr. René Leigue Cesari, titular bishop of Nepi;

H.E. Msgr. Robert Herman Flock, bishop of San Ignacio de Velasco

with the bishop emeritus:

H.E. Msgr. Carlos Stetter;

H.E. Msgr. Jesús Juárez Párraga, S.D.B., archbishop of Sucre;

H.E. Msgr. Ricardo Ernesto Centellas Guzmán, bishop of Potosí

with the bishop emeritus:

H.E. Msgr. Walter Pérez Villamonte;

S.E. Francisco Javier del Río Sendino, bishop of Tarija;

H.E. Msgr Fernando Bascopé Müller, S.D.B., military Ordinary for Bolivia

with the military Ordinary emeritus:

H.E. Msgr. Gonzalo Ramiro del Castillo Crespo, O.C.D.;

H.E. Msgr. Julio María Elías Montoya, O.F.M., titular bishop of Cuma, apostolic vicar of El Beni

with the auxiliary bishop and delegate vicar:

H.E. Msgr. Roberto Bordi, O.F.M., titular bishop of Mutugenna;

H.E. Msgr. Antonio Bonifacio Reimann Panic, O.F.M., titular bishop of Saia

Maggiore, apostolic vicar of Ñuflo de Chávez;

H.E. Msgr. Eugenio Coter, titular bishop of Tibiuca, apostolic vicar of Pando;

H.E. Msgr. Carlos Bürgler, titular bishop of Sinnipsa, apostolic vicar of Reyes

with the auxiliary bishop and delegate vicar:

H.E. Msgr. Waldo Rúben Barrionuevo Ramírez, C.SS.R., titular bishop of Vulturara;

Rev. Fr. Jesús Galeote, O.F.M., apostolic administrator of the apostolic vicariate of Camiri,

with the apostolic vicar emeritus:

H.E. Msgr. Francesco Focardi, O.F.M., titular bishop of Cenculiana.