AUDIENCES

Vatican City, 23 May 2013 (VIS) – This morning, the Holy Father received:

five members of the presidency of the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community (COMECE):

  - Cardinal Reinhard Marx, archbishop of Munich, Germany, president;

  - Bishop Gianni Ambrosio of Piacenza-Bobbio, Italy, vice president;

  - Bishop Virgil Bercea of Oradea Mareof the Romanians, Romania, vice president;

  - Bishop Jean Kockerols, auxiliary of Malines-Brussels, Belgium, and titular of Ypres, vice president; and

  - Fr. Patrick Daly, general secretary.

Cardinal Angelo Scola, archbishop of Milan, Italy.