List of pastoral visits of Pope John Paul II outside Italy

Map details visits outside of Europe (Polish language)

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 Israel) were to places previously visited by Paul VI (the first pope to travel widely), many others were to countries that no pope had ever previously visited. in 2004 John Paul II made his final trips this time going to France and Switzerland. In the year 2003 He was supposed to Visit Mongolia but was canceled due to poor Health problems from Parkinsons Disease. in 2005 he was supposed to visit Germany for World Youth Day 2005 for a 4th visit to Germany but, Sadly Died on April 2nd, 2005

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

Nations visited by Pope John Paul II

Countries visited

Pastoral trips of Pope John Paul II

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

Millions cheer Pope John Paul II during his first visit to Poland as pontiff

Pope John Paul II, during his first U.S. visit in 1979, at Yankee Stadium, New York City

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
1	25 January-1 February 1979	Dominican Republic  Mexico  The Bahamas	Attended the Third General Conference of the Latin American Bishops held in Puebla
2	2–10 June 1979	Poland
3	29 September-8 October 1979	Ireland  United States	Centenary of the Knock apparitions. Address at United Nations General Assembly
4	28–30 November 1979	Turkey

1980s

On 3 June 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]

The Pope with American President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan, 1982

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, Aparecida in Brazil 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
5	2–12 May 1980	Zaire  Republic of the Congo  Kenya  Ghana  Upper Volta  Côte d'Ivoire
6	30 May-2 June 1980	France	Pilgrimage to Lisieux
7	30 June-12 July 1980	Brazil	Brasília (30 June), Belo Horizonte (July 1), Rio de Janeiro (July 1), São Paulo (July 3), Aparecida (July 4), Porto Alegre (July 4), Curitiba (July 5), Salvador (July 6), Recife (July 7), Teresina (July 8), Belém (July 8), Fortaleza (July 9), Manaus (July 10)
8	15–19 November 1980	West Germany
9	16–27 February 1981	Pakistan  Philippines  Guam  Japan  United States	Beatified Lorenzo Ruiz in Manila. Includes stopovers in Karachi and Anchorage; Second visit to U.S.
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; Second visit to Brazil. Argentina was at war at the time.
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	400th anniversary of Teresa of Ávila
17	2–10 March 1983	Portugal  Costa Rica  Nicaragua  Honduras  Panama  El Salvador  Guatemala  Belize  Haiti	Includes stopover in Lisbon; Second visit to Portugal
18	16–23 June 1983	Poland	Second visit
19	14–15 August 1983	France	Lourdes; Second visit to France
20	10–13 September 1983	Austria
21	2–12 May 1984	United States  South Korea  Papua New Guinea  Solomon Islands  Thailand	Canonization of 103 martyrs in Seoul, Korea. Includes stopover in Fairbanks; Third visit to U.S.[16]
22	12–17 June 1984	Switzerland	Second visit
23	9–20 September 1984	Canada
24	10–13 October 1984	Spain  Dominican Republic  Puerto Rico	Second visit to Spain
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	Kloten; Third visit to Switzerland
29	31 January-10 February 1986	India
30	1–8 July 1986	Colombia  Saint Lucia
31	4–7 October 1986	France	Third visit to France, including Lyon and five other cities
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	Beatification in Cologne
35	8–14 June 1987	Poland	11 June 1987 Pope John Paul II arriving at the military airport at Gdynia on his third Papal visit to Poland.
36	10–21 September 1987	United States  Canada	Fourth visit to U.S.; 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	Alsace-Lorraine; Fourth visit to France
41	28 April-6 May 1989	Madagascar  Réunion  Zambia  Malawi	Fifth visit to France; Réunion
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; Third visit to Spain
44	6–10 October 1989	South Korea  Indonesia  East Timor  Mauritius	44th International Eucharistic Congress of Seoul. 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 United States took place in 1995, while the visit to Lebanon was delayed until 1997.

Pastoral visit of Pope John Paul II to Bosnia and Herzegovina

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
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	Second visit to Mexico
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	Fátima, Portugal and São Miguel Island (Azores); Third visit to Portugal
51	1–9 June 1991	Poland	Fourth visit
52	13–20 August 1991	Poland  Hungary	Celebration of World Youth Day in Częstochowa; Fifth visit to Poland
53	12–21 October 1991	Brazil	Third visit; Natal (October 12), São Luís, Maranhão (October 14th), Brasília (October 14), Goiânia (October 15th), Cuiabá (October 16), Campo Grande (October 17th), Florianópolis (October 18), Vitória (October 19th), Maceió (October 19), Salvador (October 20th).
54	19–26 February 1992	Senegal  The Gambia  Guinea
55	4–10 June 1992	Angola  São Tomé and Príncipe	500th anniversary of mission in Angola
56	9–14 October 1992	Dominican Republic	4th Latin American Episcopal Conference
57	3–10 February 1993	Benin  Uganda  Sudan
58	25 April 1993	Albania
59	12–17 June 1993	Spain	45th International Eucharistic Congress in Sevilla; Fourth visit to Spain
60	9–16 August 1993	Jamaica  Mexico  United States	Third visit to Mexico. Fifth visit to U.S.; 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	900th anniversary of the Archdiocese of Zagreb
63	10–21 January 1995	Philippines  Papua New Guinea  Australia  Sri Lanka	Celebration of World Youth Day 1995 in Manila; Formerly, the largest papal crowd.
64	20–22 May 1995	Czech Republic  Poland	Canonization of John Sarkander in Olomouc, Czech.; Sixth visit to Poland
65	3–4 June 1995	Belgium	Beatification of Father Damien
66	30 June–3 July 1995	Slovakia
67	14–20 September 1995	Cameroon  South Africa  Kenya
68	4–9 October 1995	United States	Sixth visit to U.S.; Visited Newark, East Rutherford, Central Park, New York City,[24] the United Nations,[25] Yonkers, and Baltimore
69	5–12 February 1996	Guatemala  Nicaragua  El Salvador  Venezuela	Second visit to Guatemala
70	14 April 1996	Tunisia
71	17–19 May 1996	Slovenia
72	21–23 June 1996	Germany	Visited Paderborn and Berlin
73	6–7 September 1996	Hungary	1,000th anniversary of Pannonhalma Archabbey's foundation
74	19–22 September 1996	France	Sixth visit to France
75	12–13 April 1997	Bosnia and Herzegovina
76	25–27 April 1997	Czech Republic	1,000th anniversary of Adalbert of Prague's martyrdom
77	10–11 May 1997	Lebanon
78	31 May–10 June 1997	Poland	46th International Eucharistic Congress in Wrocław; Seventh visit to Poland
79	21–24 August 1997	France	Celebration of the 12th World Youth Day in Paris; Seventh visit to France
80	2–6 October 1997	Brazil	Fourth visit; II World Meeting of Families With the Pope at Rio de Janeiro
81	21–26 January 1998	Cuba
82	21–23 March 1998	Nigeria
83	19 June 1998	Austria
84	2–4 October 1998	Croatia	Beatified Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac
85	22–28 January 1999	Mexico  United States	Fourth visit to Mexico. Seventh visit to U.S.; 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	Beatification of 108 Martyrs of World War II in Warsaw; Eighth visit to Poland
88	19 September 1999	Slovenia	Beatification in Maribor
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.^[26] The Pope's final visit was to the Marian Shrine of Lourdes in the south of France.

Voyage	Date	Nations Visited	Notes
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; Fourth visit to Portugal
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 the 17th World Youth Day 2002 in Toronto. Canonization of Juan Diego; Fifth visit to Mexico; Third visit to Guatemala
98	16–19 August 2002	Poland	Ninth visit
99	3–4 May 2003	Spain	Canonization in Madrid; Fifth visit to Spain
100	5–9 June 2003	Croatia	Third visit
101	22 June 2003	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Beatification of Ivan Merz in Banja Luka
102	11–14 September 2003	Slovakia
103	5–6 June 2004	Switzerland	Bern; Fourth visit to Switzerland
104	14–15 August 2004	France	Lourdes; Eighth visit to France

See also

• List of meetings between the Pope and the President of the United States
• Papal travel
• State visit

References

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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