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.