Meeting with the Holy Father were prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, Cardinal Fernando Filoni; president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the International Eucharistic Congresses, Cardinal Jozef Tomko; and the apostolic nuncio to El Salvador and Belize, Archbishop Leon Kalenga Badikebele,.
The Pope also met with Michael Nazir-Ali, former Anglican bishop of Rochester, and Han Thomas Hong-soon, South Korea’s ambassador to the Holy See, who is on his farewell visit.