Foreign trips by Pope Benedict XVI.

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Pope Benedict XVI prays in front of the Marian column in Munich ( Bavaria visit 2006 )

This article contains a chronologically ordered list of the trips abroad of Pope Benedict XVI. with its most important goals and statements. Pope Benedict completed 24 apostolic trips outside of Italy as well as 31 pastoral trips within Italy (including San Marino) and two Italian state visits. Pope Benedict visited all five continents during his tenure.

Overview

Apostolic trips to other countries outside of Italy

target date year Occasion / places visited
1 Germany 1 18.-21. August 2005 Apostolic trip to Cologne on the occasion of the XX. World Youth Day
2 Poland 1 25.-28. May 2006 Apostolic trip to Poland ( Warsaw , Czestochowa , Jasna Góra , Krakow , Wadowice , Kalwaria Zebrzydowska , Łagiewniki , Auschwitz )
3 Spain 1 8th-9th July 2006 Apostolic trip to the 5th World Meeting of Families in Valencia
4th Germany 2 9-14 September 2006 Apostolic trip to Bavaria ( Munich , Altötting , Marktl , Regensburg , Freising )
5 Turkey 1 November 28th - December 1st 2006 Apostolic trip to Turkey ( Ankara , Ephesus , Istanbul )
6th Brazil 1 9-14 May 2007 Apostolic trip to Brazil on the occasion of the V General Conference of the Episcopate of Latin America and the Caribbean ( São Paulo , Aparecida , Guaratinguetá )
7th Austria 1 7th-9th September 2007 Apostolic trip to Austria on the occasion of the 850th anniversary of the pilgrimage site Mariazell ( Vienna , Mariazell , Heiligenkreuz )
8th USA 1 15.-24. April 2008 Apostolic Journey to the United States of America ( Washington , New York City )
9 Australia 1 12-21 July 2008 Apostolic trip to Sydney on the occasion of the XXIII. World Youth Day
10 France 1 12-15 September 2008 Apostolic trip to France on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Lourdes apparitions ( Paris , Lourdes )
11.1 Cameroon 1 17th to 20th March 2009 Apostolic trip to Cameroon ( Yaoundé )
11.2 Angola 1 20.-23. March 2009 Apostolic trip to Angola ( Luanda )
12.1 Jordan 1 8-11 May 2009 Apostolic Journey to Jordan ( Amman , Mount Nebo , Bethany )
12.2 Israel 1 11-15 May 2009 Apostolic trip to Israel ( Jerusalem , Bethlehem , Yad Vashem , Nazareth )
13 Czech Republic 1 26.-28. September 2009 Apostolic trip to the Czech Republic ( Prague , Brno , Altbunzlau )
14th Malta 1 17.-18. April 2010 Apostolic trip to Malta
15th Portugal 1 11-14 May 2010 Apostolic trip to Portugal
16 Cyprus 1 4th-6th June 2010 Apostolic trip to Cyprus
17th United Kingdom 1 16. – 19. September 2010 Apostolic Journey to the United Kingdom ( Edinburgh , Glasgow , London , Birmingham )
18th Spain 2 6-7 November 2010 Apostolic trip to Spain ( Santiago de Compostela and Barcelona )
19th Croatia 1 4th to 5th June 2011 Apostolic trip to Croatia ( Zagreb )
20th Spain 3 18.-21. August 2011 Apostolic trip to Madrid on the occasion of the XXVI. World Youth Day
21st Germany 3 22-25 September 2011 Apostolic trip to Germany ( Berlin , Erfurt , Etzelsbach , Lahr / Black Forest , Freiburg im Breisgau )
22nd Benin 1 18.-20. November 2011 Apostolic trip to Benin ( Cotonou , Ouidah )
23 Mexico 1 and Cuba 1 23-29 March 2012 Apostolic trip to Mexico ( León , Guanajuato ) and Cuba ( Santiago de Cuba and Havana )
24 Lebanon 1 14.-16. September 2012 Apostolic trip to Lebanon ( Beirut , Harissa , Baabda , Bzommar , Bkerke , Charfet )

Pastoral and state visits within Italy (including San Marino)

target date year Occasion / places visited
1 Italy 1 May 29th 2005 Pastoral visit to Bari at the end of the National Eucharistic Congress
2 Italy 2 June 24th 2005 State visit to the Italian President in the Quirinal Palace in Rome
3 Italy 3 September 1 2006 Pilgrimage to the sanctuary of the “ Holy Face ” in Manoppello
4th Italy 4 October 19th 2006 Visit to Verona for the 4th National Congress of the Italian Church
5 Italy 5 21-22 April 2007 Pastoral visit to Vigevano and Pavia
6th Italy 6 17th of June 2007 Pastoral visit to Assisi
7th Italy 7 1st – 2nd September 2007 Pastoral visit to Loreto on the occasion of the “Agora” of the Italian youth
8th Italy 8 September 23rd 2007 Pastoral visit to Velletri
9 Italy 9 October 21 2007 Pastoral visit to Naples
10 Italy 10 17.-18. May 2008 Pastoral visit to Savona and Genoa
11 Italy 11 14.-15. June 2008 Pastoral visit to Santa Maria di Leuca and Brindisi
12 Italy 12 7th of September 2008 Pastoral visit to Cagliari
13 Italy 13 4th of October 2008 State visit to the Italian President in the Quirinal Palace in Rome
14th Italy 14 October 19th 2008 Pastoral visit to the Marian Shrine in Pompei near Naples
15th Italy 15 April 28 2009 Pastoral visit to the earthquake area of ​​Abruzzo ( Onna and L'Aquila )
16 Italy 16 May 24th 2009 Pastoral visit to Cassino (Latium) and the Benedictine Abbey of Montecassino
17th Italy 17 June 21st 2009 Pastoral visit to San Giovanni Rotondo
18th Italy 18 September 6th 2009 Pastoral visit to Viterbo and Bagnoregio
19th Italy 19 November 8th 2009 Pastoral visit to Brescia and Concesio
20th Italy 20 2.May 2010 Pastoral visit to Turin with pilgrimage to the Turin Shroud
21st Italy 21 July 4th 2010 Pastoral visit in Sulmona
22nd Italy 22 5th September 2010 Pastoral visit to Carpineto Romano
23 Italy 23 October 3 2010 Pastoral Visit to Palermo
24 Italy 24 7th-8th May 2011 Pastoral visit to Aquileia and Venice
25th San Marino 1 June 19th 2011 Pastoral visit to the diocese of San Marino-Montefeltro with a state visit to San Marino
26th Italy 25 September 11 2011 Pastoral visit to Ancona at the end of the National Eucharistic Congress
27 Italy 26 9th October 2011 Pastoral visit to Lamezia Terme and Serra San Bruno
28 Italy 27 October 27 2011 Peace meeting of the world religions in Assisi
29 Italy 28 May 13th 2012 Pastoral visit to Arezzo and Sansepolcro
30th Italy 29 1st - 3rd June 2012 Pastoral visit in Milan and Bresso for the VII World Meeting of Families
31 Italy 30 June 26th 2012 Pastoral visit in the earthquake region of Emilia-Romagna
32 Italy 31 15th of July 2012 Pastoral visit to Frascati
33 Italy 32 4th of October 2012 2. Pastoral visit to the pilgrimage town of Loreto

Travel 2005

Italy (1)

His first official trip, a pastoral visit planned by his predecessor John Paul II , took the Pope to the southern Italian city ​​of Bari on May 29, 2005 . Here he celebrated the closing mass of the XXIV National Eucharistic Congress of Italy and prayed the Angelus with the faithful .

Italy (2)

Official state visit to Italy on June 24, 2005 with an inaugural visit to President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi in the Quirinal Palace . This visit was also planned for April 29, 2005 by the late Pope John Paul II and was intended to bring the Vatican and the Italian state closer together after around twenty years of estrangement.

Germany (1)

Pilgrim group during the visit of Benedict XVI. in Cologne (August 2005)

The first apostolic journey of Benedict XVI. started on August 18, 2005. It took him to World Youth Day in Cologne and for the first time to his home country (it was not an official visit to Germany). During his four-day stay, he met Federal President Horst Köhler and Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder . He also visited Cologne Cathedral and the Cologne Synagogue , where he met leading representatives of German Jewry. A solemn vigil took place on August 20th, and the next day the big closing service of the WYD took place on the Marienfeld near Cologne with over a million believers. His sermon there was very different from one of his predecessor John Paul II. He renounced any references to Catholic sexual teaching or to the veneration of Mary. He set an example for interreligious dialogue by visiting the synagogue there during World Youth Day in Cologne on August 19, 2005 and meeting representatives of the Muslim community the next day . The trip ended on August 21, 2005 with the return flight to Rome. On August 25, 2007, Auxiliary Bishop Heiner Koch blessed the so-called Papal Hill on Marienfeld. The embankment was made a little wider at the top, and the altar and the World Youth Day cross are now firmly attached to the ground. Various earths were also used, which delegates from all over the world had brought with them to a meeting in Cologne a year before the World Youth Day.

Travel 2006

Poland

This apostolic journey from May 25 to 28, 2006 was a bow to the homeland of his predecessor John Paul II. Next to Warsaw , where Benedict XVI. met the Polish President Lech Kaczyński , this trip took him to the Marian Shrine of Jasna Góra , to Wadowice (birthplace of John Paul II), to the pilgrimage site of Kalwaria Zebrzydowska and to Krakow , the episcopal city of Karol Wojtyłas (both in southern Poland).

The highlight of the Pope's trip was his visit to the Auschwitz concentration camp , where he prayed on the death row of St. Father Maximilian Kolbe .

The speech he gave there met with a divided response. It invoked dialogue between Jews and Christians, and to that extent this speech and his visit to the concentration camp were recognized as a gesture of reconciliation. On the other hand, the part of his speech was particularly criticized in which he spoke of the fact that the German “people could be used and abused as an instrument of their [the National Socialists] rage of destruction and rule”, which parts of the public rejected as a trivializing representation because she only ascribes the role of a victim and not a perpetrator to the German “people”.

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Spain (1)

Benedict XVI. came to Valencia at the invitation of King Juan Carlos I and the Spanish bishops for a two-day visit on July 8th and 9th, 2006 , to celebrate the closing mass of the 5th World Family Meeting (July 1st to 9th) in front of a million people . In the cathedral of Valencia he venerated the holy chalice , which is traditionally considered to be the chalice of Jesus' last supper.

Italy (3)

On September 1, 2006, on a private pilgrimage, he was the first Pope to visit the Manoppello Veil (Volto Santo di Manoppello) in the Capuchin Church outside of Manoppello in Abruzzo (Central Italy). In this veil with a looming on male face is it's a very old relic, possibly dates from the time of Christ, and which is considered by the faithful in the region and, more recently, some researchers around the veil of Veronica is , while according to the traditional view it is in the treasury of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Three weeks after his visit, Pope Benedict elevated the church to the papal basilica .

Germany (2)

Waiting for the Pope in Munich: police and barriers.

Pope Benedict XVI visited Bavaria from 9 to 14 September 2006 , arriving in Munich and being welcomed by Federal President Horst Köhler , Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber .

On the following day, Sunday, September 10th, he celebrated a festive church service in the morning on the grounds of the New Munich Trade Fair Center with around 250,000 believers. In the afternoon he celebrated Vespers in Munich's Liebfrauendom .

On September 11th, he held a Eucharist on Kapellplatz in Altötting and met members of the order and seminary students. In front of the Black Madonna in the Altötting Chapel of Mercy , he laid down his bishop's ring, which he had worn until the papal election and which is now attached to the scepter of the statue of the Mother of God. After a detour to his birthplace Marktl , he continued his journey to Regensburg with an overnight stay in the local seminary of St. Wolfgang .

On September 12th, he celebrated Holy Mass on the Islinger Feld on the southern outskirts of the city with around 230,000 people. In the afternoon he gave a lecture on “Faith, Reason and University” in the university's auditorium maximum . It contained statements on the relationship between Islam and violence and a globally controversial quote from the Byzantine emperor Manuel II. Palaiologos that was critical of Islam , compare the Pope quote from Regensburg . In the evening he celebrated an ecumenical Vespers in the cathedral together with the Evangelical Lutheran regional bishop of Bavaria Johannes Friedrich and the Orthodox metropolitan of Germany Augoustinos .

On September 13th he consecrated the new organ named after him in the old chapel . Together with his brother , he then visited the grave of his parents and sister in the Ziegetsdorf cemetery and his private home in Pentling . Before leaving Munich airport the following day, he met priests, deacons and old companions in the cathedral in Freising .

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Visit to Verona on October 19, 2006 on the occasion of the 4th National Congress (Kirchentag) of the Italian Church with a long speech on the relationship between faith and secular culture, as well as celebration of Holy Mass in the city's football stadium.

Turkey

Benedict XVI. stayed in Turkey from November 28 to December 1, 2006 . Under pressure from the Turkish government, a previous invitation from the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I was withdrawn so that it could issue the invitation itself.

The Pope was received by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at Ankara Airport . After visiting the mausoleum of the Turkish state founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk , Anıtkabir , he met with Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer and then with Ali Bardakoğlu , as President of Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı, the highest Muslim dignitary in Turkey.

On November 29, 2006 he visited the house of Mother Mary (Meryemana) near Ephesus , where, according to tradition, Mary, the mother of Jesus , is said to have spent the last years of her life. After a mass he flew on to Istanbul , where there was a first meeting with Bartholomew I.

On November 30th, Benedict XVI. the Orthodox St. George's Cathedral in the Istanbul district of Fener and attended the Divine Liturgy in honor of St. Andrew , whose successor is the Ecumenical Patriarch. After the service, the Pope and the Patriarch declared the unity of the two churches as a goal. The visit to Hagia Sophia was a tricky section of the travel program, as critics feared that the building would be taken over by Christians. The Turkish media noted benevolently that the Pope refrained from praying or similar gestures in the secularized building. In the then visited Blue Mosque Benedict XVI. received by the Grand Mufti of Istanbul, Mustafa Cağrici . During the Grand Mufti's prayer with a view of Mecca , the Pope paused in meditation in the posture of prayer that is usual for Muslims. This gesture was interpreted by observers as a show of respect for Islam .

On December 1st, he celebrated mass in the Holy Spirit Cathedral . In the afternoon Benedict XVI returned. back to Rome. The visit is considered very successful. Originally planned only as a visit to the ecumenical patriarch, it became an important stage in the reconciliation between the Catholic Church and the Islamic world after the conflict over Pope Benedict's Regensburg speech .

Travels 2007

Italy (5)

Benedict XVI. visited Vigevano and Pavia in Lombardy on April 21 and 22 , the only two Italian dioceses in which John Paul II had not been. All the bishops of Lombardy concelebrated the papal mass in Vigevano on April 21. The following day the Pope prayed at the grave of his great role model, the Holy Doctor of the Church Augustine , on whose ecclesiology he received his doctorate in 1953. The occasion of this pastoral trip was the 750th anniversary of the last founding act of the Augustinian order , the publication of the Bulle Licet Ecclesiae Catholicae by Pope Alexander IV. In Pavia, Pope Benedict also blessed the foundations of the new cultural center, which is to be named Benedetto XVI .

Brazil

Aparecida (The Appeared)
  • Brazil (May 9-14, 2007), at the opening of CELAM ( Conselho Episcopal Latinoamericano / Consejo Episcopal Latinoamericano - Latin American Bishops' Conference).

During his two-day stay in São Paulo , the largest metropolitan region in South America with around 20 million inhabitants , he lived in the Benedictine monastery of São Bento, which was founded in 1598 and rebuilt in 1914 according to a design by the Munich architect Richard Berndl . On Thursday, May 10, 2007, he met 40,000 young people at the Pacaembu football stadium in São Paulo. He urged chastity, conjugal fidelity, and renunciation of drugs from young people. They should also not allow themselves to be carried away by hatred and violence and resist the temptations of corruption. A weakening of Christian life and participation in the life of the Catholic Church, as in many parts of the world, can also be seen in Brazil. This is due to secularism, hedonism, arbitrariness and also proselytism through numerous sects, through "natural religions" or through new pseudo-religious movements.

On Friday, May 11th, Pope Benedict XVI. in São Paulo, the Brazilian Franciscan Frei Antônio de Sant'Ana Galvão (1739-1822) canonized. 1.5 million people came together for the canonization mass in São Paulo and the day was declared a public holiday.

Pope Benedict with the founders of the Fazenda da Esperança; from left - Iraci Leite, Lucilene Rosendo, Father Hans Stapel, Pope Benedict XVI., Nelson Rosendo, Paul Stapel

On Saturday, May 12, 2007, he visited the drug aid project Fazenda da Esperança , which was founded by the Franciscan Father Hans Stapel, who was born in Paderborn. On the same day he reached the well-known Brazilian Marian pilgrimage site of Aparecida . There in the Basilica of Aparecida he prayed the rosary with priests, seminarians, religious and representatives of spiritual communities.

On Sunday, May 13th, 2007 at 9:00 p.m. he opened the session of the V General Assembly of the Latin American and Caribbean Episcopate with a Vespers . The historic meeting of 176 cardinals, archbishops and bishops from Latin America, the Caribbean Islands, the United States, Spain and Portugal, who represent around half of the world's Catholic population , was under the motto: I am the way, the truth and the life ( Jn 14: 6). In a speech to the cardinals denounced the tendency to unconditional profit-making in the course of globalization. Often profit is treated like the topmost value. Both Marxism and predatory capitalism would have made promises that would have been proven wrong. He called for a new evangelization for Latin America. Pope ends difficult mission ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Faith made America the continent of hope, not a political ideology, a social movement, or an economic system.

A speech by the Pope met with criticism from the indigenous people of Brazil. According to the Pope , the Catholic Church did not impose itself on the Indians in Latin America. Rather, the tribes quietly longed for the arrival of the priests in the course of the Spanish conquest. The head of the Amazon tribe, Coiab, commented on the speech: “It is arrogant and disrespectful to value our cultural heritage as secondary.” Criticism also came from the coordinator of the northeastern tribes Tuxa: “To say that the cultural decimation of our people represents a cleansing, is insulting and - frankly - frightening. " The internal church Indian representation of Brazil announced: " The Pope does not understand the reality of the indigenous people here. His position was wrong and cannot be defended. ”On the other hand, John Paul II spoke in 1992 about errors in the evangelization of the indigenous people. Preaching Jesus and his Gospel never required an alienation of the pre-Columbian cultures, nor was it the imposition of a foreign culture, so Benedict XVI. The Cologne historian Hans-Jürgen Prien, a specialist in the history of the Church in Latin America, accused Benedikt of "unbelievable historical distortion". The speech was "the most superficial whitewashing thing I have read from the papal mouth on the mission of Latin America for 30 years." The Freiburg church historian and expert on Latin American mission history Mariano Delgado, on the other hand, defended "the real thrust of the papal words" and reminded them, "that the missionary history of Latin America has written brilliant chapters in church history ”. He made a comparison with missionary work in Europe and stated that Martin Luther , too, ultimately came from the Saxon people who were the victim of the worst forced mission of the Middle Ages under Charlemagne around 800 , but who ultimately accepted Christianity and a cultural one Synthesis brought about. Benedict had expressly said that the missionary work was "at no time [...] the imposition of a foreign culture". With Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez , a senior Latin American politician joined the debate and demanded an apology from the Pope: “With all due respect, you should apologize, because there really was genocide here and if we denied it, we would to deny our deepest selves ”.

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Italy (6)

On June 17, 2007, the Pope traveled to the central Italian city of Assisi on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the vocation of Francis of Assisi . After being welcomed by Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino , one of the harshest critics of the former Cardinal Ratzinger, and Prime Minister Romano Prodi , Benedict XVI. for prayer, sometimes as the first Pope ever, some of the most important stations in the life of the saint: The Cathedral of San Rufino , where both Francis and Clare of Assisi were baptized; the church of San Damiano , Francis of Assisi's vocation; the tomb of the saint in the Basilica of San Francesco , the tomb of St. Clare in the Basilica of Santa Chiara and Franzens place of death, the Portiuncula Chapel in the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli . There he gave a catechesis on the conversion of Francis of Assisi to 10,000 young people from Umbria .

Italy (7)

During a two-day visit to the Marian pilgrimage site of Loreto from September 1st to 2nd, 2007 on the occasion of the meeting of Italian youth in preparation for the XXIII. World Youth Day in Sydney , Pope Benedict celebrated the Eucharist with around 500,000 young people. He called on the youth to follow Christ unconditionally, to work for a more just world and to protect the environment.

Austria

From September 7th to 9th, 2007 Benedict XVI. to a state and pilgrims visit to Austria on. The occasion was the 850th anniversary of the foundation of the Marian pilgrimage site in Mariazell (Upper Styria).

On September 7th, he and young people prayed in front of the Marian Column in front of the historic Church am Hof in Vienna. Afterwards, together with Chief Rabbi Paul Chaim Eisenberg and Ariel Muzicant , the President of the Israelite Religious Community , he commemorated the victims of the Shoah on Judenplatz . In the afternoon he met representatives of public life and the diplomatic corps in the Hofburg .

On September 8, Pope Benedict XVI celebrated a holy mass in front of the basilica of Mariazell . He also commemorated two pilgrims who had died on the way to the papal mass. In the afternoon he celebrated the Marian Vespers in the Mariazeller Basilica with religious, deacons and seminarians.

On September 9th, Benedict XVI celebrated a classic high mass in St. Stephen's Cathedral , accompanied by music by Schubert and Haydn , and then prayed the Angelus in front of the cathedral. In the afternoon he visited the Heiligenkreuz Abbey and then met volunteers from the social and charitable sector in the Wiener Konzerthaus .

In his speeches he made statements on many topics such as abortion and Sunday.

Italy (8)

Pastoral visit in Velletri on September 23, 2007 with Eucharistic celebration in front of the cathedral and inauguration of a Benedictine column. From 1993 until his election as Pope, Joseph Ratzinger was Cardinal Bishop of Velletri-Segni .

Italy (9)

Pastoral trip to Naples on October 21, 2007 with celebration of a pontifical high mass for the opening of the 21st International Peace Meeting of the World Religions, among others with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomäus I , the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams , the EKD Council Chairman Wolfgang Huber , the Israeli chief rabbi Jona Metzger and the rector of al-Azhar University in Cairo, Ahmed el-Tayeb , as well as another 300 representatives of other religions and Christian denominations.

Travel 2008

United States

Arrive at Andrews Air Force Base
Benedict on the streets of Washington DC

Pope Benedict XVI visited the United States from April 15 to 20, 2008 at the invitation of the United Nations and Washington, DC The motto of the visit was - Christ our Hope . During the flight, he expressed his deep regret over a scandal involving the sexual abuse of children who had been victims of pedophile priests in the past . The scandal resulted in approximately $ 2 billion in damages from the Church and the financial bankruptcy of some American dioceses. Benedict XVI. was the first state guest of the American people to be personally picked up by an American president after landing at Andrews Air Force Base . The first stop took the Pope to Washington DC, where there was a reception in the White House with 9,000 guests in honor of the Pope on April 16, 2008 . The Pope celebrated his 81st birthday. Bush spoke of inviting a personal friend into his home. In the evening, the Pope visited the National Shrine of the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception , where he celebrated Vespers and met the American bishops.

On April 17, 2008, the Pope celebrated Holy Mass with 47,000 believers at Washington National Baseball Stadium. On April 18, 2008, he gave a speech at the United Nations (UN) in New York City. One focus of the speech was the demand for a strengthening of human rights, as well as more preventive conflict resolution. He condemned individual states going it alone to resolve conflicts. Afterwards a meeting with the representatives of the Jewish community took place in the Park East Synagogue in New York. The day before, he had met with representatives of the Jewish community in Washington.

The journey then continued with a visit to the World Trade Center (" World Trade Center Site ") destroyed by the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , where he knelt and prayed for the fanatics, extremists, terrorists and victims of terrorism and blessed the area. He then celebrated mass at Yankee Stadium in front of 65,000 worshipers. He ended the visit on April 20, 2008 and was bid farewell to New York City's JFK Airport by Vice President Dick Cheney and New York Senator Hillary Clinton .

Italy (10)

Pastoral trip to Liguria and visit to the cities of Savona and Genoa on May 17th and 18th, 2008. On May 17th, 2008 he prayed in the Savonian Shrine of Our Lady of Mercy and celebrated Holy Mass in the open air in the Piazza del Popolo of Savona Rain. Continue to Genoa on the same day and arrive at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Watch.

On May 18, 2008 visit to the Giannina Gaslini Children's Hospital. Then there was a meeting with young people in Piazza Matteotti and an encounter with the chapter of the cathedral and the consecrated people during the visit to the Cathedral of S. Lorenzo in Genoa. The day ended with a Eucharistic celebration in the Piazza della Vittoria.

Italy (11)

Pastoral trip to Santa Maria di Leuca and Brindisi on June 14th and 15th, 2008. On June 14th, Pope Benedict visited the Marian shrine of Santa Maria di Leuca on the extreme tip of Apulia , the place where, according to legend, the apostle Peter in 43 first set foot on mainland Italy and began his mission on Italian soil. On June 15, the Pope celebrated Holy Mass in the port of Brindisi.

Australia

Trip on the occasion of the XXIII. World Youth Day in Sydney between July 13-21, 2008.

Italy (12)

Visit to the pilgrimage site of Our Lady of Bonaria in Cagliari in Sardinia on September 7th, 2008 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of Our Lady of Bonaria as patroness of all Sardinia by Pope Pius X. and celebration of St. Mass in Cagliari with 100,000 believers.

France

From September 12th to 15th, 2008 he visited Lourdes on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the apparition of the Virgin Mary to Bernadette Soubirou . It was Pope Benedict XVI's first trip. into the oldest daughter of the church . On September 12th, 2008 he gave a lecture at the Paris Collège des Bernardins on Christian culture in the area of ​​tension between faith and reason, religion and science. In the evening he held a mass in Notre Dame de Paris . On the evening of September 13th, the Pope visited the Marian pilgrimage site in Lourdes . The next day he celebrated a service there in the evening hours. On the last day of his visit to France, the Pope held a mass with the sick in the basilica of Lourdes and gave them the anointing of the sick .

Italy (13)

Official state visit on October 4, 2008 with a reception by President Giorgio Napolitano in the Quirinal Palace . The visit was of great symbolic importance as it took place on the feast day of the patron saint of Italy, Saint Francis of Assisi .

Italy (14)

On October 19, 2008 Pope Benedict XVI visited the famous Marian shrine in Pompeii near Naples . He celebrated mass just a few kilometers from the ruins of the ancient city in front of thousands of believers. After the celebration of mass, the Pope awarded the Golden Rose to the pilgrimage site of Pompeii. In the evening he led a rosary there . The occasion for this short trip was the rosary month of October.

Travel 2009

Cameroon

The Pope visited from 17th to 20th March 2009 Cameroon . When he arrived at the airport in the capital Yaoundé in the afternoon , Benedict was greeted by members of the government of the West African state and by the President of Cameroon, Paul Biya , who expressed the interest of Pope Benedict XVI in his welcoming address. praised to Africa. He said he wanted to bring a "message of hope" to the poorest continent on earth. The people of Africa hoped for a “word of hope and comfort,” said the Pope. Christians should never remain silent in the face of suffering, poverty, hunger, violence, corruption and abuse of power. He also criticized the regional conflicts that devastated Africa, described human trafficking as a “new form of slavery” and complained about the food shortage. Benedikt received media coverage for his statement that the AIDS problem in Africa cannot be solved by distributing condoms, "on the contrary, there is a risk of increasing the problem". Rather, the solution lies in a “spiritual and human awakening” and “friendship for those who suffer”.

On March 18, he first visited the President of Cameroon. This was followed by a meeting with the bishops of Cameroon. He later celebrated a Vespers with bishops, priests, religious, deacons, representatives of church movements and other Christian denominations of Cameroon in the Basilica of Mary Queen of the Apostles in the Mvolyé district of Yaoundé .

On the morning of March 19, the Pope had a meeting with representatives of the Muslim community in Cameroon. Then he held a Holy Mass on the occasion of the publication of the Instrumentum Laboris of the Second Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for Africa in the Amadou Ahidjo Stadium in Yaoundé. In the afternoon there was an encounter with the sick and suffering in the Card Center . Paul Émile Léger . The Pope later met with the members of the Special Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops for Africa in the Apostolic Nunciature of Yaoundé.

On the morning of March 20, the Pope was adopted at the airport in Yaoundé and flew on to Angola .

Angola

The Pope was received by the President of Angola, José Eduardo dos Santos , at midday on March 20 at Luanda Airport . In the afternoon there was a meeting with the Angolan President. Then there was a meeting with the political and civil authorities and the diplomatic corps. In the evening the Pope met with the bishops of Angola and São Tomé .

On March 21st he celebrated Holy Mass with the bishops, priests, religious, representatives of the ecclesiastical movements and the catechists of Angola and São Tomé. In the afternoon there was an encounter with young people in the Luanda dos Coqueiros stadium .

On March 22nd, Benedict celebrated Holy Mass with the bishops of IMBISA (Interregional Meeting of Bishops of Southern Africa) on the plain of Cimangola in Luanda. An angelus prayer followed there. In the afternoon the Pope had a meeting with representatives of the Catholic movements for the advancement of women in the parish of Santo António in Luanda.

He was adopted on the morning of March 23 at Luanda Airport and flew back to Rome .

Italy (15)

As a token of solidarity with the earthquake victims, the pontiff made a short two and a half hour visit to the Abruzzo region on April 28, 2009, where he visited the hardest hit places Onna and L'Aquila . At the reliquary of Pope Celestine V , recovered intact from the ruins of the church of Santa Maria di Collemaggio , he laid down the pallium that he received at his inauguration.

The main focus of the trip was the visit to a tent city, the meeting with the mayors of the communities hit by the earthquake as well as with the faithful and the staff involved in relief efforts.

Jordan

From May 8, 2009 to May 11, 2009, Benedict XVI was at the beginning of his first trip to the Middle East of his tenure in Jordan

Israel

From 11th to 15th May 2009 Pope Benedict XVI. in Israel and the Palestinian West Bank . It was the third visit by a Pope to the Holy Land after Paul VI. and John Paul II. As the first head of the Roman Catholic Church, he entered the Muslim Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem .

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On Ascension Day , May 24, 2009, Pope Benedict made a pastoral visit in Cassino with St. Mass and in the Benedictine Abbey of Montecassino with a sermon about the holy founder of the order Benedict of Nursia , the patron of his Pope's name. In Montecassino he also visited the Polish military cemetery.

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Pastoral visit on June 21, 2009 in San Giovanni Rotondo with Eucharist and veneration of the relics of St. Father Pio , whose remains had been exhumed the year before and reburied in a glass shrine for public veneration.

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On September 6, 2009, Benedict XVI. a pastoral trip to Viterbo with St. Mass and visit to the conclave hall in the Palace of the Popes. During the subsequent visit to Bagnoregio , he venerated the relics of St. Bonaventure in the cathedral , on whom he had completed his habilitation in 1956/57.

Czech Republic

Benedict XVI. visited from 26.-28. September 2009 Czech Republic . On Saturday (September 26th) he visited Prague , on Sunday (September 27th) Brno and on Monday (September 28th) the pilgrimage site Stará Boleslav (Old Boleslav) .

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Pope Benedict XVI went on his pastoral trip to Brescia and Concesio on November 8, 2009 in the home of his predecessor Paul VI. who made him Archbishop and Cardinal in 1977. In his sermon on the Piazza Paolo VI in Brescia, he paid tribute to the Montini Pope for his “heroic commitment” to the Church and the world. In the nearby Concesio, the Pope visited the birthplace and the baptistery of Paul VI. and inaugurated the new headquarters of the "Paul VI Institute".

Travel 2010

Malta

In the aftermath of the Pauline Year , Pope Benedict XVI visited on April 17th and 18th 2010 the island republic of Malta on the occasion of the commemoration of the arrival of the apostle Paul on the island 1950 years ago. As in Australia and the USA before, he met with victims of sexual abuse by priests in Malta.

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Pope Benedict XVI went to Turin on May 2, 2010 and first celebrated Sunday mass on the "Piazza San Carlo" and held the traditional prayer of Regina caeli there . In the afternoon there was a big meeting with young people just before the actual occasion and climax of the apostolic journey, the pilgrim visit and the veneration of the shroud in the cathedral of Turin . The next regular exhibition of the Turin Shroud should actually have taken place in the Holy Year 2025; Pope Benedict XVI However, as the owner of the shroud, he announced to Turin pilgrims on June 2, 2008 that, due to numerous requests, he had already arranged a solemn display of the shroud for the period from April 10 to May 23, 2010 and would make a pilgrimage there himself, if God gave him him Life and health. The trip ended with an encounter with the sick and the handicapped in the “Little House of Divine Providence” of St. Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo , whose relics the Pope also venerated there.

Portugal

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the beatification of the seer children Francisco and Jacinta Marto , Pope Benedict XVI visited from 11th to 14th May 2010 Portugal and visited Lisbon , Porto and above all the Marian pilgrimage site of Fátima . The Pope celebrated several holy masses with many hundreds of thousands of believers, at the climax in Fátima on May 13th, the 93rd anniversary of the apparition of Mary, nearly half a million pilgrims came.

Cyprus

Apostolic journey from June 4 to 6, 2010 as the first pope of modern times with reception by the Orthodox Archbishop of Cyprus Chrysostomos II and with the publication of the Instrumentum Laboris working paper for the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Middle East, which will then take place from 10 to 24 June 2010 . October 2010 in Rome.

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On the occasion of the 800th birthday of Pope Celestine V , the Pope traveled on July 4, 2010 for a pastoral visit to Sulmona , where the saint had lived as a hermit for a long time. In addition to the celebration of St. Mass and the Angelus prayer met Benedict XVI. with young people and with some prisoners and venerated the bones of Sts for the second time after his visit to L'Aquila in April 2009. Pope Celestine V, who had been transferred to the crypt of Sulmona cathedral after the earthquake in L'Aquila.

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Pastoral visit on September 5, 2010 in Carpineto Romano , the birthplace of Pope Leo XIII. on the occasion of his 200th birthday.

United Kingdom (Scotland, England)

State visit to the United Kingdom from September 16-19, 2010 for the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman . On September 16, 2010 in Holyrood Palace , Edinburgh, the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Elizabeth II officially received the Pope together with the Duke of Edinburgh . With Benedict XVI. The first official meeting took place on the occasion of the first state visit of the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Great Britain since the church split in 1534. This meeting took place in Scotland because the Queen is not the head of the Church there as in England. The function of the queen as head of the church cannot be recognized by the Holy See, although her title as Defender of the Faith (Latin: Fidei Defensor ) was originally granted by Pope Leo X to the predecessor Henry VIII. The visit of John Paul II in 1982 had been classified according to protocol as a private pastoral trip in order to avoid these sensitive issues. The Queen met the Pope "purely privately" in London at that time, without giving any speeches.

The historic greeting from Edinburgh is therefore the first ever papal address that has been addressed to a British monarch on British soil (at least) since the 16th century. The address given by the Pope in Westminster Hall on September 17th is of even greater historical significance , since in it he not only spoke again about the relationship between faith and reason, especially in public spaces, but also because he valued the parliamentary form of government positively .

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Pope Benedict XVI traveled to Palermo on October 3, 2010 for the regional church meeting with families and young people and called on the people of Sicily to take a firm stand against organized crime.

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Apostolic journey of the Pope to Spain from November 6th to 7th, 2010. On the first day he was greeted by Crown Prince Felipe of Spain and his wife Princess Letizia . With his visit to the pilgrimage site, Benedict XVI said he wanted to join all those who had come to Santiago de Compostela over the centuries. when greeting. He then drove with the popemobile from the airport to the cathedral of the Spanish pilgrimage site of Santiago de Compostela , where the tomb of Apostle Jacob , the patron saint of Spain is located. There he held a mass in the afternoon in the square in front of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela .

On November 7th, he consecrated the unfinished Sagrada Família church in Barcelona in a mass and elevated it to the minor basilica . In addition to King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia , guests of honor at the service were the President of Catalonia , José Montilla , the President of Parliament, Jose Bono and the Mayor of Barcelona, Jordi Hereu . Around 36,000 chairs and 31 large broadcast screens were set up in the vicinity of the church , which broadcast the mass and consecration of the Sagrada Familia live.

Travel 2011

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Pope Benedict XVI visited the north-eastern Italian town of Aquileia on May 7, 2011 in memory of the fact that this town was an important center of the early church in Roman late antiquity, from which northern Italy, Austria , Bavaria , Slovenia and parts of Croatia were evangelized. He met there with bishops from these countries and then traveled on to Venice for a two-day pastoral visit . On May 8th, he celebrated Holy Mass in San Giuliano Park in Mestre on the Venetian mainland with 300,000 believers, met with priests and lay people in St. Mark's Basilica and consecrated the newly restored Chapel of the Most Holy Trinity and the library of the Marcianum Seminary . At the end of the visit, he met with representatives from culture and business in the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute .

Croatia

Apostolic trip to Croatia from 4th to 5th June 2011 on the occasion of the first National Family Day of Croatian Catholics with Holy Mass in the Hippodrome of Zagreb , attended by 300,000 to 400,000 believers. The Pope campaigned for Croatia to join the European Union . In the cathedral of Zagreb he prayed at the grave of Blessed Alojzije Stepinac and celebrated Vespers with bishops, priests, religious and seminarians.

San Marino

Pastoral visit to the Diocese of San Marino-Montefeltro on Trinity Sunday , June 19, 2011 with a state visit to the Republic of San Marino . Since the diocese belongs to the Italian bishops' conference , the visit was not declared as an apostolic trip, but as a pastoral visit, as is customary on trips within Italy. In the morning, Pope Benedict celebrated Holy Mass in the Serravalle stadium . In the evening he met young people from the diocese on Piazza Vittorio Emanuele in Pennabilli in the Italian part of the transnational diocese.

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On the occasion of the World Youth Day 2011 Pope Benedict XVI. again to Spain. He was received on August 18, 2011 by King Juan Carlos I , Queen Sofía , and the Archbishop of Madrid , Cardinal Rouco Varela , at Barajas Airport .

The evening before, after verbal clashes between participants in the World Youth Day and demonstrators against the Pope's visit, clashes between these demonstrators and the police broke out. In the run-up, several media reported about a failed attack on the demonstrators.

On the morning of August 19, the Pope visited the King and Queen in the Zarzuela Palace . The Crown Prince couple Felipe and Letizia and the Infanta Elena were also present with their children. During the visit there was also a private conversation between the Pope and the King. From the palace, Benedict XVI. to a meeting with young women religious and then with university lecturers in the palace and monastery complex El Escorial north-west of Madrid.

In the evening the Pope prayed the Way of the Cross with young people in downtown Madrid . For this purpose, historical groups of figures from different regions of Spain were brought to Madrid and placed between the Plaza de Colón and the Plaza de Cibeles . Young people from all over the world carried the World Youth Day Cross to the various stations. The prayers themselves pointed to today's suffering: war, persecution, drug addiction, terrorism and marginalization.

On August 20, the Pope held a mass for 5,000 prospective priests in Almudena Cathedral . In the evening he met young people with physical and intellectual disabilities as well as their families and carers in front of the Fundación Instituto San José . Then he celebrated a vigil with hundreds of thousands of young people at Cuatro Vientos airport , where he had to interrupt his sermon because of a storm. The big closing service with more than a million participants took place on August 21st at the same airport and is considered to be the largest gathering of Catholics in Spain to date.

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Pope Benedict XVI visited Ancona on September 11, 2011 on the occasion of the XXV. National Eucharistic Congress. He celebrated the closing mass in the port area and thus concluded the second Italian Eucharistic Congress after 2005. He also remembered the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 exactly 10 years ago.

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Federal President Wulff and his wife receive the Pope
The Pope celebrated Holy Mass in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin on September 22, 2011 with around 61,000 believers from all over the world .
Before the service, Pope Benedict XVI. in the Popemobile a lap of honor through the Olympic Stadium in Berlin
Benedict XVI. at the Papal Mass in Freiburg, September 25, 2011

Pope Benedict XVI landed on the morning of September 22, 2011 at Berlin-Tegel Airport . There he was welcomed by Federal President Christian Wulff , his wife Bettina Wulff and Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel , among others .

The Pope then went to the official reception at Bellevue Palace . In his speech, the Federal President referred to the responsibility of the Church in the modern world.

Benedict XVI. in his address complained, among other things, of an increasing indifference in society towards religion. The Pope also emphasized the religious character of his trip. He did not come primarily, "as other statesmen rightly do, to pursue certain political and economic goals, but to meet people and talk about God".

Then the Pope went to the seat of the German Bishops' Conference to talk to the Chancellor. At the Brandenburg Gate , the first demonstrators protested against the visit of the Holy Father. In the afternoon, Benedict XVI. as the first Pope ever to give a speech to the German Bundestag in the Reichstag building . The topic was reflections on the fundamentals of law. He criticized with reference to Hans Kelsen the legal positivism that Europe is moved by it in relation to other cultures of the world in a state of lack of culture. Christian theologians, on the other hand, would have recognized reason and nature in their mutual relationship as the legal source valid for all. The appearance of the ecological movement in German politics since the 1970s was a cry for fresh air. Humans also have a nature that they have to respect and cannot manipulate at will. Numerous MPs stayed away from the speech because they saw the separation between church and state violated. The Pope then met representatives of the Central Council of Jews in a room in the German Bundestag.

In the evening Benedict XVI celebrated a Holy Mass in the Olympic Stadium with 61,000 people. The Federal President, the Federal Chancellor, the President of the Bundestag Norbert Lammert and the Governing Mayor of Berlin , Klaus Wowereit, took part in the service. Numerous other politicians and celebrities were also present.

At the same time as the mass, several thousand demonstrators marched from Potsdamer Platz to St. Hedwig's Cathedral , the main church of Berlin's Catholics. Members of the Bundestag who had not attended the Pope's speech in parliament also took part.

On September 23, the Pope met with representatives of Islam in Germany in the morning at the Apostolic Nunciature in Berlin before he left for Erfurt .

Then the Holy Father flew from Tegel Airport to Erfurt. On the Erfurt-Weimar Airport awaited him Thuringian Minister President Christine Lieberknecht and the Prime Minister of Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt , Stanislaw Tillich and Reiner Haseloff . He was the first Pope to visit Thuringia, a heartland of the Reformation .

Benedict XVI. was then received by Bishop Joachim Wanke in Erfurt Cathedral . Then he met the leading representatives of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) in the chapter house of the Augustinian monastery in Erfurt , the early place of activity of the reformer Martin Luther .

The Pope then celebrated an ecumenical service in the Augustinian monastery. Among the participants were the Protestant bishop Ilse Junkermann and the chairman of the EKD Council Nikolaus Schneider . In the evening Benedict XVI flew by helicopter to the Etzelsbach pilgrimage chapel in Eichsfeld . There he celebrated a Marian Vespers with 90,000 pilgrims in a field in the immediate vicinity of the chapel . Then the Holy Father flew back to Erfurt. There he met victims of sexual abuse by priests and church workers in the seminary . The Holy Father expressed "deep compassion and regret" to those affected. Subsequently, Benedict XVI met. People who care for and help victims of abuse. Such a meeting was not part of the Pope's official program of visits. However, it was expected as a symbolic gesture. The meeting was criticized as a "meaningless gesture" by the spokesman for the network of abuse victims SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests).

On September 24th, Benedict XVI celebrated In the morning a church service on the Erfurt Cathedral Square in front of around 30,000 believers. The Pope praised the contribution of East German Christians to the fall of the Berlin Wall . "The new freedom" has helped "to open people's lives with greater dignity and a variety of new opportunities," said Benedict XVI. Then he flew to his last stop during his visit to Freiburg .

After landing at Lahr Airport and being welcomed by the Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg Winfried Kretschmann , he had a brief conversation with him. Then the Pope drove on to the city center of Freiburg. After a short trip through the city in the Popemobile , a visit to the Freiburg Minster followed . There he was welcomed by the Archbishop of Freiburg and chairman of the German Bishops' Conference Robert Zollitsch . The Holy Father then greeted the townspeople on Münsterplatz. Benedict XVI. was the first Pope to visit Freiburg.

Later Benedict XVI came. together with former chancellor Helmut Kohl in the priest seminary in Freiburg . The former Federal Chancellor was accompanied by his second wife Maike Kohl-Richter . The Pope praised Kohl's achievement for German unity and for Europe. In the seminary he also met representatives of the Orthodox churches and called for a common commitment by all Christians against anti-religious tendencies in society. He also met candidates for the priesthood of the seminary and the presidium of the Central Committee of German Catholics . In the evening Benedict XVI celebrated together with 30,000 young people a vigil with Eucharistic adoration on the grounds of the Freiburg Exhibition Center .

On September 25, the Pope celebrated a major closing service with 100,000 people on the grounds of the Freiburg airfield . Benedict XVI. In his sermon he called on Catholics to unity and Christian humility. The German Church will face the challenges of the present and the future if priests, religious and lay people “work together in unity”, said the Holy Father. He expressed his appreciation to the full-time and voluntary workers of the church.

In the afternoon Benedict XVI met together with federal constitutional judges in the seminary of Freiburg. The Pope then gave a speech in the Freiburg Concert Hall to which committed Catholics from church and society were invited. In the evening Benedict XVI. a short conversation with the Federal President at Lahr Airport. Then he was officially adopted by this and flew back to Rome .

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On October 9, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI visited with Lamezia Terme and Serra San Bruno the southern Italian Calabria for the first time . In the Charterhouse of the founder of the Carthusian order , St. Bruno of Cologne , who died in 1101 at the site of today's Santo Stefano del Bosco monastery , he celebrated an evening Vespers service with the Carthusian monks and visited the hospital there.

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On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the first peace meeting of the world religions , which Pope John Paul II initiated in Assisi in 1986 , Pope Benedict XVI traveled. on October 27, 2011 again to Assisi, which he had already visited in 2007, for a “day of reflection, dialogue and prayer for peace and justice”. At the invitation of the Pope, around 300 delegates from several world religions, including a. Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Confucians, Taoists, Shintoists, Sikhs, representatives of ethnic religions and, for the first time, non-believers, the promise to stand up for an end to war and violence. Representatives from 31 Christian churches present included a. the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I , Metropolitan Aleksandr of Astana of the Moscow Patriarchate , the Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams , the President of the Lutheran World Federation Munib Younan and the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches Olav Fykse Tveit .

Benin

From November 18-20, 2011, the Pope traveled to Benin, West Africa, on the occasion of the signing and publication of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation “Africae munus” of the Second Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for Africa.

Travel 2012

Mexico and Cuba

From March 23 to 29, 2012, the Pope traveled to Mexico and Cuba , where he met with revolutionary leader Fidel Castro .

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Pastoral visit to Arezzo, Tuscany, on May 13th, 2012 with Holy Mass, which was also attended by Italy's Prime Minister Mario Monti , who paid an inaugural visit to the city on the same day. The meeting with the Franciscan communities in the pilgrimage site of La Verna , the place where St. Francis received his stigmata , which was originally planned for the afternoon , was canceled because the helicopter flight there had to be canceled due to bad weather. In the late afternoon Pope Benedict visited Sansepolcro .

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Pastoral visit to the Archdiocese of Milan for the VII World Meeting of Families from June 1st to 3rd, 2012 in Milan and Bresso . It was the Pope's longest apostolic visit to Italy to date. On June 1st he was greeted by the new Archbishop of Milan, Angelo Cardinal Scola . After a meeting with the citizens of Milan in Cathedral Square, Pope Benedict XVI. Beethoven's 9th Symphony, conducted in his honor by Daniel Barenboim , at La Scala in Milan . At the end of the meeting, the Pope celebrated a Holy Mass at the Milan-Bresso airport on Trinity Sunday , June 3, with around 850,000 believers.

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Pastoral visit in the earthquake region of Emilia-Romagna on June 26th, 2012 in San Marino di Carpi-San Lorenzo ( Modena ) and in Rovereto di Novi , where the local priest Ivan Martini was struck dead by the falling rubble in his church on May 29th.

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Pastoral visit in Frascati on July 15, 2012.

Lebanon

On April 8, 2012, it was announced that the Pope would travel to Lebanon from September 14 to 16, 2012 . There he met representatives from 18 Christian and Muslim communities. The trip was overshadowed by the approaching civil war in Syria and by anti-western riots in the Middle East on the occasion of the US-produced video film Innocence of Muslims . Benedict arrived in Beirut on September 14, 2012 and then went to the Marian pilgrimage site of Harissa . There he signed the final document of the Middle East Synod of Bishops from autumn 2010 in the Melkite-Greek Basilica of St. Paul, which was the real reason for this trip. On September 15 he met with President Michel Sulaiman , government representatives and Muslim religious leaders in the Presidential Palace in Baabda and at noon with the Patriarchs and Bishops of Lebanon at the seat of the Catholic-Armenian Patriarchate in the Bzommar Monastery . In the evening he met around 20,000 young people in front of the Maronite monastery of Bkerke . There was also an ecumenical meeting in Charfet and an open air Holy Mass on the grounds of the Beirut City Center Waterfront . Over 300,000 people attended the mass, Benedict XVI. called on the Arab countries to find “viable solutions” that “respect the dignity of every person, their rights and their religion”.

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The Pope's last trip was on October 4, 2012, a pastoral visit to the pilgrimage site of Loreto , which he had already visited in 2007.

Vacation travel

Pope Benedict XVI used his annual summer vacation to write encyclicals and important speeches and to work on his Jesus books. In the first few years up to 2009, he first traveled to the Italian Alps for around two weeks and then spent the rest of the summer in the Pontifical Summer Residence Castel Gandolfo in the Alban Mountains. Since 2010 he has spent the summer exclusively in Castel Gandolfo. There he met every year with his group of students - 45 theologians, including Cardinal Christoph Schönborn , who had completed their doctorate or habilitation with him - for study days, for which the Pope had set a topic. Since 2008, the conferences there have been expanded to include the new group of younger theologians, including Kurt Cardinal Koch . During his term in office, Pope Benedict celebrated the mass of the Assumption of Mary on August 15th every year in the parish church of S. Tommaso da Villanova in Castel Gandolfo.

  • 11-28 July 2005: Les Combes di Introd in the Aosta Valley . He wrote his first encyclical Deus caritas est . Topic of the student group meeting in Castel Gandolfo: Understanding of God in Islam.
  • 11-28 July 2006: Les Combes di Introd. Final work on the first volume of his book Jesus of Nazareth . On August 6, the Pope answered questions from four German-speaking presenters, including Thomas Bellut from ZDF and Eberhard von Gemmingen from Radio Vatican, in a television interview in the Apostolic Palace of Castel Gandolfo , which was broadcast on ZDF on August 13, a few weeks before his trip to Bavaria , BR and ORF was broadcast. Topic of the student group meeting in Castel Gandolfo: Creation and evolution.
  • 9-27 July 2007: Lorenzago di Cadore in the Italian Dolomites. Work on the second part of his book Jesus of Nazareth and the encyclical Spe salvi . Topic of the student group meeting in Castel Gandolfo: Creation theory and evolutionary biology.
  • July 28th - August 11th 2008: Brixen with Angelus prayer on August 3rd and 10th on Bressanone's Cathedral Square. In the nearby hamlet of Oies in the Abbey parish , the Pope visited the birthplace of St. Joseph Freinademetz, the missionary to China, on August 5th . Topic of the student group meeting in Castel Gandolfo: Historical questions to Jesus of Nazareth and the Pope's Jesus books.
  • 13.-29. July 2009: Les Combes di Introd with Angelus prayer on July 19th in Romano Canavese , the birthplace of Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone , and visit to Aosta Cathedral on July 24th. Work on the second part of his Jesus book. On July 17th, he was operated on at the Umberto Parini hospital in Aosto after he broke his right wrist in a fall. Topic of the student group meeting in Castel Gandolfo: Mission and first evangelization among the peoples.
  • In the summer of 2010, Pope Benedict XVI. from July 7th exclusively in the Pontifical Summer Residence Castel Gandolfo. There he wrote the third and last part of his Jesus book and spent a week with Peter Seewald in talks for their joint third interview book Licht der Welt. The Pope, the Church and the signs of the times . Topic of the student group meeting: Hermeneutics of the Second Vatican Council.
  • He spent the summer of 2011 from July 7th in Castel Gandolfo, interrupted by the trip on the occasion of the XXVI. World Youth Day in Madrid. Topic of the student group meeting: New evangelization.
  • He spent the summer of 2012 from July 3rd to October 1st in Castel Gandolfo, where he completed the third volume of his Jesus book about the childhood of Jesus. From there on July 9th he visited the four-week general chapter of the Steyler missionaries in Nemi , where Joseph Ratzinger, as a young theology professor in 1965, had participated in the drafting of the council document on mission. On July 11th, he met the Italian President Giorgio Napolitano in his summer residence on the occasion of a Beethoven concert of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim . Topic of the student group meeting: Ecumenism with Lutheranism and Anglicanism.

After the pontificate

On the day of his retirement, Benedict XVI retired. returned to Castel Gandolfo, where he met the new Pope Francis for the first time on March 23, 2013 and stayed there until the completion of his new residence, the Mater Ecclesiae monastery in the Vatican, on May 2, 2013. The student group of Benedict XVI. met again at the end of August 2013 in the papal residence of Castel Gandolfo for talks on the question of God in the horizon of secularization, in which the Pope emeritus no longer took part but stayed in his Vatican monastery.

At the invitation of Pope Francis, Benedict XVI. A two-week holiday in Castel Gandolfo from June 30 to July 14, 2015, where he gave a public speech for the first time since his resignation on July 4 on the occasion of the award of two honorary doctorates from the Kraków Academy of Music and the Kraków Pontifical University John Paul II .

From June 18 to 22, 2020, Benedict XVI. a private trip to Germany to visit his sick brother , who is three years older, in Regensburg . Public appearances, photo sessions or personal encounters with the Pope emeritus were expressly excluded.

See also

Web links

Commons : Benedict XVI. abroad  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Vatican: Address by Pope Benedict XVI. Faith, Reason and University. Memories and reflections. , September 12, 2006.
  3. ^ Vatican Radio : Turkey: Invitation to the Pope ( Memento of September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) September 15, 2005.
  4. ↑ The Holy See : Apostolic Journey to Brazil on the occasion of the V General Conference of the Episcopate of Latin America and the Caribbean (May 9-14, 2007) May 2007.
  5. ↑ Josef Oehrlein: Benedict XVI. in Brazil Spartan House for the Pope , in: FAZ of May 10, 2007.
  6. ↑ Resist temptation , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 11, 2007.
  7. ^ Pope: Keynote address to the bishops of Latin America. The key sentences ( Memento from October 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) in: Vatican Radio from May 13, 2007.
  8. ↑ Pope canonize the first Brazilian - Mass in front of 1.5 million believers ( Memento from May 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) , in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from May 11, 2007.
  9. ↑ Brazil: Pope: “Do not make marriage look ridiculous” ( Memento of October 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) , in: Vatican Radio of May 11, 2007.
  10. ↑ Pope threatens drug traffickers with divine punishment ( memento of April 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), in: Basler Zeitung of May 12, 2007.
  11. ↑ Pope: “In the Catholic Church we find everything that is good” , in: Kath.net of May 13, 2007.
  12. ↑ When the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared to the Indian San Juan Diego , in: Kath.net of May 13, 2007.
  13. ↑ , in: Kölnische Rundschau of May 14, 2007.
  14. ↑ Aparecida: Pope, faith brings hope, not ideology ( Memento of October 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) , in: Vatican Radio of May 13, 2007.
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  17. ↑ a b "An unbelievable historical misrepresentation" , interview of the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger with Hans-Jürgen Prien from May 17, 2007.
  18. ^ Mariano Delgado: Readiness to meet , in: Kölner Stadtanzeiger, May 22, 2007.
  19. ↑ Chavez demands apology from the Pope , in: derstandard.at of May 20, 2007.
  20. ^ Norbert Rief: Happy Birthday and 21 volleys for Benedikt , in: Die Presse from April 16, 2008.
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  23. ^ Pope calls on the UN to strengthen human rights , in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from April 18, 2008.
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  27. ↑ Statement of the Pope on AIDS and condom use in Africa (ARD Tagesschau) ( Memento from March 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
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  29. ^ Program of Benedict XVI's trip abroad as solidarity with the earthquake victims in Abruzzo.
  30. ↑ Il Papa visita la tendopoli di Onna: "Ora case solid, lo dobbiamo ai morti" , in: Corriere della Sera of April 28, 2009.
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  32. ↑ Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, 1964
  33. ↑ Jubilee pilgrimage to the Holy Land
  34. ↑ Anniversary pilgrimage to Mount Sinai, 2000
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  37. ↑ English
  38. ↑ German
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  41. ↑ Spanish police take action against opponents of the Pope. Spiegel Online , August 18, 2011, accessed September 18, 2011 .
  42. ↑ Police apparently prevent chemical attack on opponents of the Pope. Zeit Online , August 17, 2011, accessed September 18, 2011 .
  43. ^ Apparently gas attack on opponents of Pope foiled. Handelsblatt , August 17, 2011, accessed on September 18, 2011 .
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