This morning the Holy Father received in audience:

- His Excellency Mr. Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, President of the Republic of Mali, and entourage;

- His Eminence the Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, President of the Department of External Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow;

- Prelates of the United States Catholic Bishops’ Conference (Region XIV), on their “ad Limina Apostolorum” visit:

  - Archbishop Thomas Gerard Wenski of Miami

    with the auxiliary:

    - Bishop Enrique Delgado, titular of Acquae Novae in Proconsolari;

  - Bishop John Gerard Noonan of Orlando;

  - Bishop Gerald Michael Barbarito of Palm Beach;

  - Bishop William A. Wack, C.S.C., of Pensacola-Tallahassee;

  - Bishop Felipe de Jesús Estévez of Saint Augustine;

  . Bishop Gregory Lawrence Parkes of Saint Petersburg;

  - Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice;

  - Bishop Robert E. Guglielmone of Charleston;

  - Bishop Peter Joseph Jugis of Charlotte;

  - Bishop Luis Rafael Zarama of Raleigh;

  - Bishop Gregory John Hartmayer, O.F.M. Conv., of Savannah;

    with the emeritus:

    - Bishop John Kevin Boland;

Bishop Bernard E. Shlesinger III, titular of Naiera, auxiliary of Atlanta;

Bishop Joel M. Konzen, S.M., titular of Leavenworth, auxiliary of Atlanta.