This morning the Holy Father received in audience:

- H.E. Mr. Stephan Weil, Minister-President of Lower Saxony, and entourage;

- Mr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization;

- H.E. Msgr. Luigi Ventura, titular archbishop of Equilio, apostolic nuncio in France;

- H.E. Msgr. Piergiorgio Bertoldi, titular archbishop of Spello, apostolic nuncio in Burkina Faso and Niger.

Today the Pope will receive in audience:

- H.E. Msgr. Luigi Pezzuto, titular archbishop of Proconsolare, apostolic nuncio in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Montenegro and in the Principality of Monaco;

- The Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, President of the Department of External Church Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow.