List of pastoral visits of Pope John Paul II outside Italy
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During his reign, Pope John Paul II ("The Pilgrim Pope") made 104 foreign trips, more than all previous popes combined. In total he logged more than 1,167,000 km (725,000 mi). He consistently attracted large crowds on his travels, some among the largest ever assembled. While some of his trips (such as to the United States and the Holy Land) were to places previously visited by Pope Paul VI (the first pope to travel widely), many others were to countries that no pope had ever previously visited.
The Pope's visit to Ireland on 29 September drew immense crowds. 1,250,000 people, one quarter of the population of the island of Ireland, one third of the population of the Republic of Ireland, attended the opening Mass of the visit in Dublin's Phoenix Park. Over 250,000 attended a Liturgy of the Word in Drogheda later that evening. Hundreds of thousands lined the streets of Dublin that night for a motorcade from Dublin Airport to the Presidential Residence in the Phoenix Park.
The following day, Sunday 30 September, included Masses in Galway (300,000), Knock (450,000) and a stop over at the monastic ruins of Clonmacnois (20,000). The final day of the visit began with a visit to the National Seminary in Maynooth (attended by 80,000). The final Mass of the visit was at Greenpark Racecourse in Limerick in the south of the country before 400,000 people which was more than had been expected.
John Paul II made his first visit to the United States in October 1979. He arrived in Boston on 1 October. The next two days were spent in New York City, where he addressed the United Nations General Assembly, spoke to students gathered at Madison Square Garden, and conducted Mass at the original Yankee Stadium[7][8] for 75,000 people[9] as well as at Shea Stadium to an audience of over 52,000.[10] He arrived in Philadelphia on 3 October and Des Moines, Iowa on the next day before arriving in Chicago. There he celebrated Mass in Grant Park, met with civic leaders and Chicago's Polish community. Chicago was the largest Catholic archdiocese in the United States at the time and the home of the largest Polish community outside of Poland.[11] He concluded his pilgrimage to the U.S. in Washington, D.C. where he became the first Pope to visit the White House. He was greeted warmly by President Jimmy Carter, and they met privately in the Oval Office.
On 18 February 1981, he beatified several martyrs, including those later sainted, St. Lorenzo Ruiz and Magdalene of Nagasaki, in Manila. This was the first beatification to be held outside Vatican City. He became the first reigning pope to travel to the United Kingdom in 1982, where he met Queen Elizabeth II, the Supreme Governor of the Church of England. This trip was in danger of being cancelled due to the then current Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas/Guerra del Atlántico Sur), against which he spoke out during the visit. In a dramatic symbolic gesture, he knelt in prayer alongside Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, in the See of the Church of England, Canterbury Cathedral, founded by St Augustine of Canterbury. They prayed at the site of the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket, meant as a show of friendship between the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches. Pope John Paul II was the first Pontiff to visit Scotland. 300,000 of the Roman Catholic minority in that country celebrated Mass with the Pope at Bellahoustan Park. On this visit the Pope faced protest from Protestant Pastor Jack Glass and his followers. This visit had to be balanced for fairness with an unscheduled trip to Argentina that June.[15]
Throughout his trips, he stressed his devotion to the Virgin Mary through visits to various shrines to the Virgin Mary, notably Knock in Ireland, Fatima in Portugal, Guadalupe in Mexico, and Lourdes in France.
In 1984, John Paul became the first Pope to visit Puerto Rico. Stands were specially erected for him at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, where he met with governor Carlos Romero Barceló, and at Plaza Las Americas.
The pope made a pastoral trip to Singapore in 1986, and was warmly received by the Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew in the Istana. Following that, the Pope made pastoral speeches concerning the Catholic doctrines in the National Stadium of Singapore, which was viewed by a large audience.
There was a plot to assassinate the Pope during his visit to Manila in January 1995, as part of Operation Bojinka, a mass terrorist attack that was developed by Al-Qaeda members Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheik Mohammed. A suicide bomber dressed as a priest and planned to use the disguise to get closer to the Pope's motorcade so that he could kill the Pope by detonating himself. Before 15 January, the day on which the men were to attack the Pope during his Philippine visit, an apartment fire brought investigators led by Aida Fariscal to Yousef's laptop computer, which had terrorist plans on it, as well as clothes and items that suggested an assassination plot. Yousef was arrested in Pakistan about a month later, but Khalid Sheik Mohammed was not arrested until 2003. During this trip to the Philippines, on 15 January 1995, the Pope offered Mass to an estimated crowd of 4–5 million in Luneta Park, Manila, the largest papal crowd ever.[19][20] On 19 September 1996, the Pope traveled to Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre, France to meditate and pray st the adjacent tombs of Saint Louis de Montfort and Blessed Marie Louise Trichet. On 22 March 1998, during his second visit to Nigeria, he beatified the Nigerian monk Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi.[21] In 1999, John Paul II made a final trip to the United States, this time celebrating Mass in St. Louis in the Edward Jones Dome. Over 104,000 people attended the 27 January Mass, making it the biggest indoor gathering in the United States.[22]
In May 2001, the Pontiff took a pilgrimage that would trace the steps of his co-namesake, Saint Paul, across the Mediterranean, from Greece to Syria to Malta. John Paul II became the first Pope to visit Greece in 1291 years. The visit was controversial, and the Pontiff was met with protests and snubbed by Eastern Orthodox leaders, none of whom met his arrival.
In Athens, the Pope met with Archbishop Christodoulos, the head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Greece. After a private 30 minute meeting, the two spoke publicly. Christodoulos read a list of "13 offences" of the Roman Catholic Church against the Orthodox Church since the Great Schism, including the pillaging of Constantinople by crusaders in 1204. He also bemoaned the lack of any apology from the Roman Catholic Church, saying that "until now, there has not been heard a single request for pardon" for the "maniacal crusaders of the 13th century".
The Pope responded by saying, "For the occasions past and present, when sons and daughters of the Catholic Church have sinned by action or omission against their Orthodox brothers and sisters, may the Lord grant us forgiveness", to which Christodoulos immediately applauded. John Paul also said that the sacking of Constantinople was a source of "deep regret" for Catholics.
Later, John Paul and Christodoulos met on a spot where Saint Paul had once preached to Athenian Christians. They issued a "common declaration", saying, "We shall do everything in our power, so that the Christian roots of Europe and its Christian soul may be preserved. ... We condemn all recourse to violence, proselytism and fanaticism, in the name of religion." The two leaders then said the Lord's Prayer together, breaking an Orthodox taboo against praying with Catholics.
He was the first Catholic Pope to visit and pray in an Mosque, in Damascus, Syria. He visited the Umayyad Mosque, where John the Baptist is believed to be interred.
In September 2001 amid post-September 11 concerns, he travelled to Kazakhstan, with an audience of largely Muslims, and to Armenia, to participate in the celebration of the 1700 years of Christianity in that nation.[25] The Pope's final visit was to the Marian Shrine of Lourdes in the south of France.
Pope John Paul II’s World Travels:[1] 1979 1. January 25–February 1 Dominican Republic and Mexico 2. June 2–10 Poland 3. September 29–October 7 Ireland and United States 4. November 28–30 Turkey 1980 5. May 2–12 Zaire, Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Ghana, Republic of Upper Volta and Ivory Coast 6. May 30–June 2 France 7. June 30–July 12 Brazil 8. November 15–19 West Germany 1981 9. February 16–27 Philippines, Guam, and Japan 1982 10. February 12–19 Nigeria, Benin, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea 11. May 12–15 Portugal (including Fátima) 12. May 28–June 2 Great Britain 13. June 10–13 Argentina 14. June 15 Switzerland 15. August 29 San Marino 16. October 31–November 9 Spain 1983 17. March 2–10 Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and Haiti 18. June 16–23 Poland 19. August 14–15 Lourdes in France 20. September 10–13 Austria 1984 21. May 2–12 South Korea, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Thailand 22. June 12–17 Switzerland 23. September 9–20 Canada 24. October 10–12 Spain, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico 1985 25. January 26–February 6 Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago 26. May 11–21 Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg 27. August 8–19 Togo, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Zaire, Kenya, Morocco 28. September 8 Liechtenstein 1986 29. February 1–February 10 India 30. July 1–8 Colombia, St. Lucia 31. October 4–7 France 32. November 19–December 1 Australia, New Zealand, Bangladesh, Fiji, Singapore, Seychelles 1987 33. March 31–April 13 Uruguay, Chile, Argentina 34. April 30–May 4 West Germany 35. June 8–14 Poland 36. September 10–20 United States and Canada 1988 37. May 7–18 Uruguay, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay 38. June 23–27 Austria 39. September 10–19 Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, detour through South Africa 40. October 8–11 France 1989 41. April 28–May 6 Madagascar, Réunion, Zambia, and Malawi 42. June 1–10 Norway, Iceland, Finland, Denmark, Sweden 43. August 19–21 Spain 44. October 6–16 South Korea, Indonesia, East Timor, Mauritius 1990 45. January 25–February 1 Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad 46. April 21–22 Czechoslovakia 47. May 6–13 Mexico, Curaçao 48. May 25–27 Malta 49. September 1–10 Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Ivory Coast 1991 50. May 10–13 Portugal 51. June 1–9 Poland 52. August 13–20 Poland, Hungary 53. October 12–21 Brazil 1992 54. February 19–26 Senegal, Gambia, Guinea 55. June 4–10 Angola, São Tomé and Príncipe 56. October 9–14 Dominican Republic 1993 57. February 3–10 Benin, Uganda, Sudan 58. April 25 Albania 59. June 12–17 Spain 60. August 9–16 Jamaica, Mexico, United States 61. September 4–10 Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia 1994 62. September 10–11 Croatia 1995 63. January 12–21 Philippines, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka 64. May 20–22 Czech Republic, Poland 65. June 3–4 Belgium 66. June 30 Slovakia 67. September 14–20 Cameroon, Kenya, South Africa 68. October 4–8 United States 1996 69. February 5–12 Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Venezuela 70. April 14 Tunisia 71. May 17–19 Slovenia 72. June 21–23 Germany 73. September 6–7 Hungary 74. September 19–22 France 1997 75. April 12–13 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 76. April 25–27 Czech Republic 77. May 10–11 Lebanon 78. May 31–June 10 Poland 79. August 21–24 France 80. October 2–5 Brazil 1998 81. January 21–25 Cuba 82. March 21–23 Nigeria 83. June 19–21 Austria 84. October 2–4 Croatia 1999 85. January 22–25 Mexico City in Mexico January 26–27 St. Louis, Missouri 86. May 7–9 Romania 87. June 5–17 Poland 88. September 19 Slovenia 89. November 5–9 New Delhi, India, and Tbilisi in Georgia 2000 90. Feb. 24–26 Egypt 91. March 20–26 Jordan, Israel and Palestinian Autonomous Territories 92. May 12–13 Fátima in Portugal 2001 93.(a) May 4–5 Athens in Greece 93.(b) May 5–6 Syria 93.(c) May 8–9 Malta 94. June 23–27 Ukraine 95. September 22–27 Armenia and Kazakhstan 2002 96. May 22–26 Azerbaijan and Bulgaria 97. July 23–August 1 Canada, Guatemala, and Mexico 98. August 16–19 Poland 2003 99. May 3–4 Spain 100. June 5–9 Croatia 101. June 22 Bosnia and Herzegovina 102.September 11-14 Slovakia 2004 103. June 5-6 Switzerland 104. August 14-15 Lourdes in France |
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[hide]Countries visited
Pope John Paul II visited 129[2][3] countries during his time as pope:- Nine visits to Poland[4]
- Eight visits to France (including one visit to Réunion)
- Seven visits to the United States (including two stopovers in Alaska)
- Five visits to Mexico and Spain
- Four visits to Brazil, Portugal, and Switzerland
- Three visits to Austria, Canada, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Czech Republic (including one visit to Czechoslovakia), Dominican Republic, Germany, Guatemala, Kenya, Malta (including one stopover in Luqa,[5] and Slovakia (including one visit to Czechoslovakia)
- Two visits to Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, El Salvador, Hungary, India, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Slovenia, South Korea, Uruguay, and Venezuela
- One visit to Albania, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curaçao (then part of the Netherlands Antilles), Denmark, East Timor (then part of Indonesia), Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Greece, Guam, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Palestinian territories, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, San Marino, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Sweden, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
1970s
Two of John Paul II's earliest official visits were to Mexico in January 1979 and Poland in June 1979.[6] While there he held Mass in Victory Square in Warsaw before 3 million of his countrymen.The Pope's visit to Ireland on 29 September drew immense crowds. 1,250,000 people, one quarter of the population of the island of Ireland, one third of the population of the Republic of Ireland, attended the opening Mass of the visit in Dublin's Phoenix Park. Over 250,000 attended a Liturgy of the Word in Drogheda later that evening. Hundreds of thousands lined the streets of Dublin that night for a motorcade from Dublin Airport to the Presidential Residence in the Phoenix Park.
The following day, Sunday 30 September, included Masses in Galway (300,000), Knock (450,000) and a stop over at the monastic ruins of Clonmacnois (20,000). The final day of the visit began with a visit to the National Seminary in Maynooth (attended by 80,000). The final Mass of the visit was at Greenpark Racecourse in Limerick in the south of the country before 400,000 people which was more than had been expected.
John Paul II made his first visit to the United States in October 1979. He arrived in Boston on 1 October. The next two days were spent in New York City, where he addressed the United Nations General Assembly, spoke to students gathered at Madison Square Garden, and conducted Mass at the original Yankee Stadium[7][8] for 75,000 people[9] as well as at Shea Stadium to an audience of over 52,000.[10] He arrived in Philadelphia on 3 October and Des Moines, Iowa on the next day before arriving in Chicago. There he celebrated Mass in Grant Park, met with civic leaders and Chicago's Polish community. Chicago was the largest Catholic archdiocese in the United States at the time and the home of the largest Polish community outside of Poland.[11] He concluded his pilgrimage to the U.S. in Washington, D.C. where he became the first Pope to visit the White House. He was greeted warmly by President Jimmy Carter, and they met privately in the Oval Office.
Voyage | Date | Nations Visited | Notes |
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1 | 25 January-1 February 1979 | Dominican Republic Mexico The Bahamas | Attended the Third General Conference of the Latin American Bishops |
2 | 2–10 June 1979 | Poland | |
3 | 29 September-8 October 1979 | Ireland United States | Centenary of the Knock apparitions |
4 | 28–30 November 1979 | Turkey |
1980s
On 2 June 2, 1980, he made a pilgrimage to Lisieux in northern France, the home town of St. Therese of the Child Jesus of the Holy Face.[12] In 1997 he declared St. Therese the third woman Doctor of the Church.[13] His 1980 visit to France was the first by a pope since 1814 and his journey to West Germany in November 1980 was the first since 1782.[14]On 18 February 1981, he beatified several martyrs, including those later sainted, St. Lorenzo Ruiz and Magdalene of Nagasaki, in Manila. This was the first beatification to be held outside Vatican City. He became the first reigning pope to travel to the United Kingdom in 1982, where he met Queen Elizabeth II, the Supreme Governor of the Church of England. This trip was in danger of being cancelled due to the then current Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas/Guerra del Atlántico Sur), against which he spoke out during the visit. In a dramatic symbolic gesture, he knelt in prayer alongside Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, in the See of the Church of England, Canterbury Cathedral, founded by St Augustine of Canterbury. They prayed at the site of the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket, meant as a show of friendship between the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches. Pope John Paul II was the first Pontiff to visit Scotland. 300,000 of the Roman Catholic minority in that country celebrated Mass with the Pope at Bellahoustan Park. On this visit the Pope faced protest from Protestant Pastor Jack Glass and his followers. This visit had to be balanced for fairness with an unscheduled trip to Argentina that June.[15]
Throughout his trips, he stressed his devotion to the Virgin Mary through visits to various shrines to the Virgin Mary, notably Knock in Ireland, Fatima in Portugal, Guadalupe in Mexico, and Lourdes in France.
In 1984, John Paul became the first Pope to visit Puerto Rico. Stands were specially erected for him at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, where he met with governor Carlos Romero Barceló, and at Plaza Las Americas.
The pope made a pastoral trip to Singapore in 1986, and was warmly received by the Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew in the Istana. Following that, the Pope made pastoral speeches concerning the Catholic doctrines in the National Stadium of Singapore, which was viewed by a large audience.
Voyage | Date | Nations Visited | Notes |
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5 | 2–12 May 1980 | Template:Country data Zaïre Republic of the Congo Kenya Ghana Upper Volta Côte d'Ivoire | |
6 | 30 May-2 June 1980 | France | |
7 | 30 June-12 July 1980 | Brazil | |
8 | 15–19 November 1980 | West Germany | |
9 | 16–27 February 1981 | Pakistan Philippines Guam Japan United States | Includes stopovers in Karachi and Anchorage |
10 | 12–19 February 1982 | Nigeria Benin Gabon Equatorial Guinea | |
11 | 12–15 May 1982 | Portugal | |
12 | 28 May-2 June 1982 | United Kingdom | |
13 | 10–13 June 1982 | Brazil Argentina | Includes stopover in Rio de Janeiro |
14 | 15 June 1982 | Switzerland | Addressed the 68th Session of the International Workers Conference |
15 | 29 August 1982 | San Marino | |
16 | 31 October-9 November 1982 | Spain | |
17 | 2–10 March 1983 | Portugal Costa Rica Nicaragua Honduras Panama El Salvador Guatemala Belize Haiti | Includes stopover in Lisbon |
18 | 16–23 June 1983 | Poland | |
19 | 14–15 August 1983 | France | |
20 | 10–13 September 1983 | Austria | |
21 | 2–12 May 1984 | United States South Korea Papua New Guinea Solomon Islands Thailand | Includes stopover in Fairbanks[16] |
22 | 12–17 June 1984 | Switzerland | |
23 | 9–20 September 1984 | Canada | |
24 | 10–13 October 1984 | Spain Dominican Republic Puerto Rico | |
25 | 26 January-6 February 1985 | Ecuador Peru Venezuela Trinidad and Tobago | |
26 | 11–21 May 1985 | Netherlands Luxembourg Belgium | |
27 | 8–19 August 1985 | Togo Côte d'Ivoire Cameroon Central African Republic Zaire Kenya Morocco | |
28 | 8 September 1985 | Switzerland Liechtenstein | |
29 | 31 January-10 February 1986 | India | |
30 | 1–8 July 1986 | Colombia Saint Lucia | |
31 | 4–7 October 1986 | France | |
32 | 18 November-1 December 1986 | Bangladesh Singapore Fiji New Zealand Australia Seychelles | |
33 | 31 March-13 April 1987 | Chile Uruguay Argentina | Celebration of World Youth Day in Buenos Aires) |
34 | 30 April-4 May 1987 | West Germany | |
35 | 8–14 June 1987 | Poland | |
36 | 10–21 September 1987 | United States Canada | Visited Miami, Columbia, South Carolina, New Orleans, San Antonio, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Monterey, San Francisco, Detroit),[17] and (Fort Simpson, NT |
37 | 7–19 May 1988 | Uruguay Bolivia Peru Paraguay, | |
38 | 23–27 June 1988 | Austria | |
39 | 10–20 September 1988 | Zimbabwe Botswana Lesotho Swaziland Mozambique | South Africa was excluded from the itinerary because of apartheid, although the flight to Maseru Airport was redirected to Johannesburg Airport and the pope travelled overland to Lesotho.[18] |
40 | 8–11 October 1988 | France | |
41 | 28 April-6 May 1989 | Madagascar Réunion Zambia Malawi | |
42 | 1–10 June 1989 | Norway Iceland Finland Denmark Sweden | |
43 | 19–21 August 1989 | Spain | Celebration of World Youth Day in Santiago de Compostela |
44 | 6–10 October 1989 | South Korea Indonesia East Timor Mauritius | East Timor was a province of Indonesia at the time of this visit |
1990s
The Pope's foreign travel programme for 1994 was suspended due to a fall resulting in hip-replacement surgery. Visits to Belgium, the United States, and Lebanon were cancelled as a result. The visits to Belgium and the Uniteed States took place in 1995, while the visit to Lebanon was delayed until 1997.There was a plot to assassinate the Pope during his visit to Manila in January 1995, as part of Operation Bojinka, a mass terrorist attack that was developed by Al-Qaeda members Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheik Mohammed. A suicide bomber dressed as a priest and planned to use the disguise to get closer to the Pope's motorcade so that he could kill the Pope by detonating himself. Before 15 January, the day on which the men were to attack the Pope during his Philippine visit, an apartment fire brought investigators led by Aida Fariscal to Yousef's laptop computer, which had terrorist plans on it, as well as clothes and items that suggested an assassination plot. Yousef was arrested in Pakistan about a month later, but Khalid Sheik Mohammed was not arrested until 2003. During this trip to the Philippines, on 15 January 1995, the Pope offered Mass to an estimated crowd of 4–5 million in Luneta Park, Manila, the largest papal crowd ever.[19][20] On 19 September 1996, the Pope traveled to Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre, France to meditate and pray st the adjacent tombs of Saint Louis de Montfort and Blessed Marie Louise Trichet. On 22 March 1998, during his second visit to Nigeria, he beatified the Nigerian monk Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi.[21] In 1999, John Paul II made a final trip to the United States, this time celebrating Mass in St. Louis in the Edward Jones Dome. Over 104,000 people attended the 27 January Mass, making it the biggest indoor gathering in the United States.[22]
Voyage | Date | Nations Visited | Notes |
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45 | 25 January-1 February 1990 | Cape Verde Guinea-Bissau Mali Burkina Faso Chad | |
46 | 21–22 April 1990 | Czechoslovakia | |
47 | 6–14 May 1990 | Mexico Curaçao | |
48 | 25–27 May 1990 | Malta | |
49 | 1–10 September 1990 | Malta Tanzania Burundi Rwanda Côte d'Ivoire | Includes stopover in Luqa; Consecration of the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro |
50 | 10–13 May 1991 | Portugal | |
51 | 1–9 June 1991 | Poland | |
52 | 13–20 August 1991 | Poland Hungary | Celebration of World Youth Day in Częstochowa |
53 | 12–21 October 1991 | Brazil | |
54 | 19–26 February 1992 | Senegal The Gambia Guinea | |
55 | 4–10 June 1992 | Angola São Tomé and Príncipe | |
56 | 9–14 October 1992 | Dominican Republic | |
57 | 3–10 February 1993 | Benin Uganda Sudan | |
58 | 25 April 1992 | Albania | |
59 | 12–17 June 1993 | Spain | |
60 | 9–16 August 1993 | Jamaica Mexico United States | Celebration of World Youth Day in Denver[23] |
61 | 4–10 September 1993 | Lithuania Latvia Estonia | Visit to the Hill of Crosses |
62 | 10–11 September 1994 | Croatia | |
63 | 11–21 January 1995 | Philippines Papua New Guinea Australia Sri Lanka | Celebration of World Youth Day 1995 in Manila |
64 | 20–22 May 1995 | Czech Republic | |
65 | 3–4 June 1995 | Belgium | |
66 | 30 June-3 July 1995 | Slovakia | |
67 | 14–20 September 1995 | Cameroon South Africa Kenya | |
68 | 4–9 October 1995 | United States | Visited Newark, East Rutherford, New York City, the United Nations,[24] Yonkers, and Baltimore |
69 | 5–12 February 1996 | Guatemala Nicaragua El Salvador Venezuela | |
70 | 14 April 1996 | Tunisia | |
71 | 17–19 May 1996 | Slovenia | |
72 | 21–23 June 1996 | Germany | |
73 | (6–7 September 1996 | Hungary | |
74 | 19–22 September 1996 | France | |
75 | 12–13 April 1997 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
76 | 25–27 April 1997 | Czech Republic | |
77 | 10–11 May 1997 | Lebanon | |
78 | 31 May -10 June 1997 | Poland | |
79 | 21–24 August 1997 | France | Celebration of World Youth Day in Paris |
80 | 2–6 October 1997 | Brazil | |
81 | 21–26 January 1998 | Cuba | |
82 | 21–23 March 1998 | Nigeria | |
83 | 19 June 1998 | Austria | |
84 | 2–4 October 1998 | Croatia | |
85 | 22–28 January 1999 | Mexico United States | Visit to St. Louis for the Closing of the Special Assembly for America of the Synod of Bishops |
86 | 7–9 May 1999 | Romania | |
87 | 5–17 June 1999 | Poland | |
88 | 19 September 1999 | Slovenia | |
89 | 5–9 November 1999 | India Georgia |
2000s
In 2000, he became the first modern Catholic pope to visit Egypt, where he met with the Coptic Pope and the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria.In May 2001, the Pontiff took a pilgrimage that would trace the steps of his co-namesake, Saint Paul, across the Mediterranean, from Greece to Syria to Malta. John Paul II became the first Pope to visit Greece in 1291 years. The visit was controversial, and the Pontiff was met with protests and snubbed by Eastern Orthodox leaders, none of whom met his arrival.
In Athens, the Pope met with Archbishop Christodoulos, the head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Greece. After a private 30 minute meeting, the two spoke publicly. Christodoulos read a list of "13 offences" of the Roman Catholic Church against the Orthodox Church since the Great Schism, including the pillaging of Constantinople by crusaders in 1204. He also bemoaned the lack of any apology from the Roman Catholic Church, saying that "until now, there has not been heard a single request for pardon" for the "maniacal crusaders of the 13th century".
The Pope responded by saying, "For the occasions past and present, when sons and daughters of the Catholic Church have sinned by action or omission against their Orthodox brothers and sisters, may the Lord grant us forgiveness", to which Christodoulos immediately applauded. John Paul also said that the sacking of Constantinople was a source of "deep regret" for Catholics.
Later, John Paul and Christodoulos met on a spot where Saint Paul had once preached to Athenian Christians. They issued a "common declaration", saying, "We shall do everything in our power, so that the Christian roots of Europe and its Christian soul may be preserved. ... We condemn all recourse to violence, proselytism and fanaticism, in the name of religion." The two leaders then said the Lord's Prayer together, breaking an Orthodox taboo against praying with Catholics.
He was the first Catholic Pope to visit and pray in an Mosque, in Damascus, Syria. He visited the Umayyad Mosque, where John the Baptist is believed to be interred.
In September 2001 amid post-September 11 concerns, he travelled to Kazakhstan, with an audience of largely Muslims, and to Armenia, to participate in the celebration of the 1700 years of Christianity in that nation.[25] The Pope's final visit was to the Marian Shrine of Lourdes in the south of France.
Voyage | Date | Nations Visited | Notes |
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90 | 24–26 February 2000 | Egypt | Great Jubilee pilgrimage to Mount Sinai |
91 | 20–26 March 2000 | Jordan Israel Palestine | Great Jubilee pilgrimage to the Holy Land |
92 | 12–13 May 2000 | Portugal | Great Jubilee pilgrimage to the Marian shrine in Fátima |
93 | 4–9 May 2001 | Greece Syria Malta | |
94 | 23–27 June 2001 | Ukraine | |
95 | 22–27 September 2001 | Kazakhstan Armenia | |
96 | 22–26 May 2002 | Azerbaijan Bulgaria | |
97 | 23 July - 2 August 2002 | Canada Guatemala Mexico | celebration of World Youth Day 2002 in Toronto |
98 | 16–19 August 2002 | Poland | |
99 | 3–4 May 2003 | Spain | |
100 | 5–9 June 2003 | Croatia | |
101 | 22 June 2003 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
102 | 11–14 September 2003 | Slovakia | |
103 | 5–6 June 2004 | Switzerland | |
104 | 14–15 August 2004 | France |
See also
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External links
- "Events in the Pontificate of John Paul II" from the Vatican WebCitation archive
- 1987 Papal visit to Fort Simpson NWT
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