Today the Holy Father received in audience:

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

H.E. Msgr. Edmundo Ponciano Valenzuela Mellid, S.D.B., archbishop of Asunción,

with the archbishop emeritus:

H.E. Msgr. Eustaquio Pastor Cuquejo Verga, C.SS.R.;

H.E. Msgr. Cándido Cárdenas Villalba, bishop of Benjamín Aceval;

H.E. Msgr. Ricardo Jorge Valenzuela Ríos, bishop of Caacupé,

with the bishop emeritus:

Msgr. Catalino Claudio Giménez Medina, of the Schönstatt Fathers;

Rev. Osmar López Benítez, diocesan administrator of Carapeguá;

H.E. Msgr. Heinz Wilhelm Steckling, O.M.I., bishop of Ciudad del Este;

H.E. Msgr. Miguel Ángel Cabello Almada, bishop of Concepción;

H.E. Msgr. Juan Bautista Gavilán Velásquez, bishop of Coronel Oviedo;

H.E. Msgr. Francisco Javier Pistilli Scorzara, bishop of Encarnación

with the bishop emeritus:

Msgr. Ignacio Gogorza Izaguirre, S.C.I. of Beth;

H.E. Msgr. Pedro Collar Noguera, bishop of San Juan Bautista de Las Misiones,

with the bishop emeritus:

H.E. Msgr. Mario Melanio Medina Salinas;

H.E. Msgr. Joaquín Hermes Robledo Romero, bishop of San Lorenzo;

H.E. Msgr. Pierre Laurent Jubinville, C.S.Sp., bishop of San Pedro;

Msgr. Waldemar Sánchez Franco, diocesan administrator of Villarrica del Espíritu Santo;

H.E. Msgr. Adalberto Martínez Flores, Military Ordinary;

H.E. Msgr. Gabriel Narciso Escobar Ayala, S.D.B., titular bishop of Media, vicar apostolic of Chaco Paraguayo;

H.E. Msgr. Lucio Alfert, O.M.I., titular bishop of Tubiza, vicar apostolic of Pilcomayo.