This morning the Holy Father received in audience:

- Prelates of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil, on their “ad Limina Apostolorum” visit:

  - His Eminence Cardinal Sérgio da Rocha, archbishop of Brasília

    with the auxiliaries:

    - Bishop José Aparecido Gonçalves de Almeida, titular of Enera,

    - Bishop Marcony Vinícius Ferreira, titular of Vertara;

  - Bishop Waldemar Passini Dalbello of Luziânia;

  - Reverend Francisco Agamenilton Damascena, diocesan administrator of Uruaçu;

  - Archbishop Washington Cruz of Goiãnia

    with the auxiliaries:

    - Bishop Levi Bonatto, titular of Accia,

    - Bishop Moacir Silva Arantes, titular of Tituli in Numidia;

  - Bishop João Wilk, O.F.M. Conv., of Anápolis

    with the auxiliary:

    - Bishop Dilmo Franco de Campos, titular of Ita;

Bishop Eugène Lambert Adrian Rixen of Goiás;

Bishop José Francisco Rodrigues do Rêgo of Ipameri;

Bishop Antônio Fernando Brochini, C.S.S., of Itumbiara;

Bishop Nélio Domingos Zortea of Jataí;

Msgr. Vanildo Fernandes da Mota, diocesan administrator of Rubiataba- Mozarlândia;

Bishop Carmelo Scampa, emeritus of São Luís de Montes Belos;

Archbishop Fernando José Monteiro Guimarães, Military Ordinary;

with the auxiliary:

Bishop José Francisco Falcão de Barros, titular of Augurus.