This morning, the Holy Father Francis received in audience:

- The Reverend Professor Ioan Sauca, secretary general of the World Council of Churches;

- Archbishop Gintaras Grušas of Vilnius, Lituania, president of the Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (CCEE); with Bishop Ladislav Nemet, S.V.D., of Zrenjanin, Serbia, vice president; His Eminence Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, S.J., archbishop of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, vice president; the Reverend Martin Michaliček, secretary general; the Reverend Antonio Ammirati, deputy secretary general;

- Bishop Raymond Poisson of Saint-Jérôme and Mont-Laurier, Canada, president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Canada; with Bishop William Terrence McGrattan of Calgary,vice president; Msgr. Frank Leo, Jr., secretary general; and the Reverend Jean Vézina, adjunct secretary general;

- His Excellency Sheikh Kasem Bader, president of the Universal Peace Council;

- Ms. Elena Gagarina, director of the Kremlin Museums;

- Delegation of the “Red Nacional de Laicas y Laicos de Chile”.