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List of meetings between the Pope and the President of the United States

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President John F. Kennedy and Pope Paul VI, July 2, 1963
This is the list of meetings between the Pope and the President of the United States. Meetings have been held at the Vatican and within the United States by five Popes and twelve Presidents since 1919.

The meetings[edit source | editbeta]

DateSitePresident of the United StatesPopeNotes
January 4, 1919Vatican City[1]Woodrow WilsonPope Benedict XVFirst meeting of an incumbent President of the United States and a reigning Pope.
December 6, 1959Vatican City[2]Dwight D. EisenhowerPope John XXIII
July 2, 1963Vatican City[3]John F. KennedyPope Paul VIOnly meeting of a Roman Catholic U.S. President and a reigning Pope.
October 4, 1965New York City[4][5]Lyndon B. JohnsonPope Paul VIFirst visit to the United States by a reigning Pope.[6]
December 23, 1967Vatican City[7]Lyndon B. JohnsonPope Paul VI
March 2, 1969Vatican City[8]Richard NixonPope Paul VI
September 29, 1970Vatican City[8]Richard NixonPope Paul VI
June 3, 1975Vatican City[9]Gerald FordPope Paul VI
October 6, 1979Washington, D.C.[10]Jimmy CarterPope John Paul IIFirst visit to the White House by a reigning Pope.
June 21, 1980Vatican City[11]Jimmy CarterPope John Paul II
June 7, 1982Vatican City[12]Ronald ReaganPope John Paul II
May 2, 1984Fairbanks, Alaska[10]Ronald ReaganPope John Paul IIPresident Reagan was returning to the United States from a visit to China while Pope John Paul II was making a stopover on his way to South Korea, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Thailand.[13]
June 6, 1987Vatican City[12]Ronald ReaganPope John Paul II
September 10, 1987Miami, Florida[10]Ronald ReaganPope John Paul II
May 27, 1989Vatican City[14]George H. W. BushPope John Paul II
November 8, 1991Vatican City[14]George H. W. BushPope John Paul II
August 12, 1993Denver, Colorado[10]Bill ClintonPope John Paul IIBoth leaders addressed thousands of young students at World Youth Day.[15]
June 2, 1994Vatican City[16]Bill ClintonPope John Paul II
October 4, 1995Newark, New Jersey[10]Bill ClintonPope John Paul II
January 26, 1999St. Louis, Missouri[10]Bill ClintonPope John Paul II
July 23, 2001Castel Gandolfo, Italy[17]George W. BushPope John Paul II
May 28, 2002Vatican City[17]George W. BushPope John Paul II
June 4, 2004Vatican City[17]George W. BushPope John Paul IIPresident Bush presented Pope John Paul II with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.[18]
June 9, 2007Vatican City[17]George W. BushPope Benedict XVI
April 15–16, 2008Washington, D.C.[19][20]George W. BushPope Benedict XVI
June 13, 2008Vatican City[17]George W. BushPope Benedict XVI
July 10. 2009Vatican City[21][22][23]Barack ObamaPope Benedict XVIObama became the 12th U.S. President to meet with a Pope.[24]

President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan with Pope John Paul II, June 7, 1982

Pope Benedict XVI celebrates his 81st birthday with President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush, April 16, 2008

Other meetings[edit source | editbeta]

Additionally, Eugenio Pacelli (the future Pope Pius XII) visited the United States for two weeks in October–November 1936 and met President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Hyde Park, New York on November 5, 1936.[25]
President George W. Bush attended the Funeral of Pope John Paul II on April 8, 2005 and briefly met Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, who had led the Mass of Requiem.[26] Bush was the first incumbent U.S. president to attend a papal funeral.[27]

Former Presidents meeting the Pope[edit source | editbeta]

After leaving office, former Presidents Martin Van Buren and Millard Fillmore met separately with Pope Pius IX in Rome in 1855. Pius IX would also meet Franklin Pierce in November 1857. In 1878, Ulysses S. Grant met Pope Leo XIII in the Vatican.[28]
In April 1910, Theodore Roosevelt sought an audience with Pope Pius X. The Pope agreed to see him, provided Roosevelt would not call on some Methodist missionaries in Rome. Roosevelt had no intention of meeting the missionaries, but he declined to submit to Pius X's conditions and the interview did not take place. Theodore Roosevelt called the entire papal episode, "An elegant row."[29]

First Ladies meeting the Pope[edit source | editbeta]

There is at least one account of a sitting First Lady meeting the Pope independent of her husband. On March 11, 1962, en route to visiting India and Pakistan, Jacqueline Kennedy met with Pope John XXIII.[30]

See also[edit source | editbeta]

References[edit source | editbeta]

  1. ^ "Travels of President Woodrow Wilson". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on December 4, 2011. 
  2. ^ "Travels of President Dwight D. Eisenhower". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on December 4, 2011. 
  3. ^ "Travels of President John F. Kennedy". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on December 4, 2011. 
  4. ^ "Pope Paul VI - Travels". Vatican.va. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013. 
  5. ^ "Pope Paul VI Visit to the United Nations, 1964". Vatican.va. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013. 
  6. ^ "The President's Daily Diary: October 4, 1965". Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013. 
  7. ^ "Travels of President Lyndon B. Johnson". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on December 4, 2011. 
  8. ^ a b "Travels of President Richard M. Nixon". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on December 4, 2011. 
  9. ^ "Travels of President Gerald R. Ford". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on December 4, 2011. 
  10. ^ a b c d e f "Holy See Press Office - His Holiness Pope John Paul II Biography". Vatican.va. Archived from the original on November 6, 2011. 
  11. ^ "Travels of President Jimmy Carter". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on December 4, 2011. 
  12. ^ a b "Travels of President Ronald Reagan". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on December 4, 2011. 
  13. ^ "Remarks at the Welcoming Ceremony for Pope John Paul II in Fairbanks, Alaska May 2, 1984". Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Archived from the original on November 6, 2011. 
  14. ^ a b "Travels of President George H.W. Bush". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on December 4, 2011. 
  15. ^ "Highlights of President Clinton's First Eighteen Months in the White House". WhiteHouse.gov. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013. 
  16. ^ "Travels of President William J. Clinton". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on December 4, 2011. 
  17. ^ a b c d e "Travels of President George W. Bush". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on December 4, 2011. 
  18. ^ Secretary of the Senate, United States Congress. "Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients". Senate.gov. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013. Retrieved March 17, 2013. "June 4, 2004...Pope John Paul II" 
  19. ^ "Pope Benedict XVI - Apostolic Voyages outside Italy". Vatican.va. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013. 
  20. ^ "Pope Benedict XVI - Apostolic Journey to the United States of America and visit to the United Nations Organization Headquarters (April 15–21, 2008)". Vatican.va. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013. 
  21. ^ "Travels of President Barack Obama". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. 
  22. ^ "Vatican, White House: Abortion one topic of Obama-Pope chat". CNN. July 10, 2009. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013. Retrieved August 2, 2010. 
  23. ^ "Obama holds first talks with Pope". BBC News. July 10, 2009. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013. Retrieved August 2, 2010. 
  24. ^ Wooden, Cindy (July 10, 2009). "Presidents and popes: Obama is 12th US president to visit Vatican". Catholic News Service. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013. Retrieved October 25, 2010. 
  25. ^ "Pacelli Lunches With Roosevelt", The New York Times, November 6, 1936: 1 
  26. ^ Assaf, Andrea Kirk (June 10, 2007). "Bush and Benedict: First Meeting". Inside the Vatican. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013. Retrieved October 8, 2010. 
  27. ^ Loven, Jennifer (April 13, 2008). "A look at pope-president meetings". USA Today. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013. Retrieved August 21, 2011. 
  28. ^ DeGregorio, William A. The Complete Book of US Presidents W.W. Norton 1989 ISBN 978-1-56980-286-1
  29. ^ Durant, John and Alice Pictorial History of American Presidents A. S. Barnes and Company 1955 p. 216
  30. ^ "Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years". Field Museum of Natural History. Retrieved November 21, 2012. 
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