World-famous actor Leonardo DiCaprio finally met a person more famous than him.

Oscar nominee DiCaprio enjoyed a private 15-minute meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Thursday, January 28, 2016. Leo arrived at 11:15 a.m. local time and was accompanied by his father, George DiCaprio, and the global fundraising chair for the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, Milutin Gatsby.

"Your Holiness, thank you for granting me this private audience with you," DiCaprio said in Italian as he arrived in the Apostolic Palace and kissed the pope's ring.

The two discussed Leonardo's charitable foundation and how they can work together on climate change.

Speaking in English, Leonardo offered the pontiff a book of works by the 15th-century Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch and showed him the reproduction of the artist's "Garden of Earthly Delights" that hung over his crib when he was as an infant.

The book depicts Adam and Eve in the first panel, a landscape in the center panel, and a vision of hell in the third panel. "My father hung it on my crib. As a child I didn't quite understand what it all meant, but through my child's eyes it represented a planet, the utopia we had been given, the overpopulation, excesses," the actor said, "and the third panel we see a blackened sky that represents so much to me of what's going in in the environment."

The Oscar nominee gave him a check from the environmental philanthropy he started in 1998 to use for a charity Pope likes most. While handing over the check to Pope DiCaprio said " Your Holiness use this for a charity close to your heart."

Pope Francis, in turn, gave the actor a leather-bound copy of Laudato Si, published in 2015, plus a copy of one of his earlier works, Evangelii Gaudium (The Gospel of Joy), published in 2013.

While saying goodbye Leonardo asked Pope Francis to pray for him and kissed Pope’s ring again.

Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato Si has been embraced by environmentalists for its denunciation of the world's fossil fuel-based economy and its demand for greener energy sources.

Recently DiCaprio was honored for his philanthropic efforts at the Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he donated $15 million to environmental projects. Leonardo, 41, also announced partnerships with environmental groups focused on conservation and sustainability.

A year ago, Angelina Jolie traveled to the Vatican to meet Pope Francis after the screening of her film ‘Unbroken’.

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