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Pastoral visits of Pope Francis. This is a list of pastoral visits of Pope Francis.His visit to the Philippines in January 2015 included the largest papal event in history with around 6–7 million attendees in his final Mass at Manila, surpassing the then-largest papal event at World Youth Day 1995 in the same venue twenty years earlier.
LESBOS, Greece April 16 (Reuters) - Pope Francis took three families of Syrian refugees back to Rome on Saturday after visiting the frontline of Europe's migrant crisis at a camp in Greece where ...
Biden led the U.S. delegation at the papal inauguration of Pope Francis in March 2013; he accompanied the pope during the pontiff's visit to the United States in September 2015; and met him at a Vatican conference on cancer research in April 2016. [46] [47] Then-Vice President George H. W. Bush met Pope John Paul II on September 19, 1987 in ...
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Website. USCCB Papal Visit 2015. Pope Francis visited North America— Cuba and the United States —from 19 to 27 September 2015. [1][2] It was his first state visit to both Cuba and the U.S., [3] as well as the third official papal visit to Cuba and the seventh to the United States since the U.S ...
Countries visited. Pope John Paul II visited 129 [1][2] countries during his time as pope: Nine visits to Poland [3] 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.
The Holy See immediately set up its Apostolic Nunciature to Greece in Athens. The Greek ambassador to the Holy See resided at first in Paris, where he was concurrently accredited to France; however, in 1988 a separate Greek embassy to the Holy See, situated in Rome, was set up. In May 2001, Pope John Paul II made a visit of pilgrimage to Greece ...
Pope Francis was born as Jorge Mario Bergoglio on 17 December 1936[17]in Flores,[18]a neighbourhoodof Buenos Aires.[17] He was the eldest[19]of five children of Mario José Bergoglio (1908–1959) and Regina María Sívori (1911–1981). Mario Bergoglio was an Italian immigrantaccountant[20]born in Portacomaro(Province of Asti) in Italy's ...
Pope Francis' visit to Southeast Asia, the longest trip in his papacy, is the latest in decades of regular papal visits to the Asia-Pacific region. Papal travel is a thing of the modern era ...