AUDIENCES

Vatican City, 22 April 2013 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father received in separate audiences:

eight prelates of the Umbria region of the Italian Episcopal Conference on their "ad limina" visit:

- Archbishop Gualtiero Bassetti of Perugia-Città della Pieve,

- Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino, bishop of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino,

- Archbishop Renato Boccardo of Spoleto-Norcia,

- Bishop Mario Ceccobelli of Gubbio,

- Bishop Benedetto Tuzia of Orvieto-Todi,

- Bishop Domenico Cancian, F.A.M., of Città di Castello,

- Bishop Gualtiero Sigismondi of Foligno,

- Bishop Ernesto Vecchi, titular Bishop of Lemellefa, Apostolic Administrator of Terni-Narni-Amelia, and

Cardinal George Pell, archbishop of Sydney, Australia.

On Saturday, 20 April, the Holy Father received:

- Cardinal Marc Ouellet, P.S.S., prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, and

- Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family.