AUDIENCES

Vatican City, 3 May 2013 (VIS) – This morning the Holy Father received six prelates from the Marche region of the Italian Episcopal Conference on their "ad limina" visit:

   - Archbishop Edoardo Menichelli of Ancona-Osimo,

   - Archbishop Piero Coccia of Pesaro,

   - Bishop Giuseppe Orlandoni of Senigallia,

   - Bishop Giancarlo Vecerrica of Fabriano-Matelica,

   - Bishop Gerardo Rocconi of Jesi, and

   - Bishop Claudio Giuliodori, apostolic administrator of Macerata-Tolentino-Recanati-Cingoli-Treia.

This afternoon he is scheduled to receive:

   - Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and

   - Fernando Cardinal Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.