This morning the Holy Father received in audience:

- His Holiness Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, and entourage;

- H.E. Msgr. Valentino Di Cerbo, bishop of Alife-Caiazzo, Italy;

- Msgr. Fernando Ocáriz Braña, prelate of Opus Dei;

- Hon. Michael Müller, president of the Bundesrat and Governing Mayor of Berlin (Federal Republic of Germany), and entourage;

- H.E. Msgr. Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte, O.F.M., archbishop of Trujillo, Perú, president of the Episcopal Conference of Peru, with H.E. Msgr. Pedro Ricardo Barreto Jimeno, S.J., archbishop of Huancayo, first vice president; H.E. Msgr. Robert Francis Prevost, bishop of Chiclayo, O.S.A., second vice president; H.E. Msgr. Norbert Klemens Strotmann Hoppe, M.S.C., bishop of Chosica, secretary general;

- Members of the Centesimus Annus - Pro Pontifice Foundation.