Foreign trips by Pope Francis

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Foreign trips by Pope Francis.

This article contains a chronologically ordered list of the trips abroad by Pope Francis with his most important goals and statements. Pope Francis has so far completed 31 apostolic trips outside of Italy as well as a number of pastoral trips within Italy .

Apostolic trips to other countries outside of Italy

target date Occasion / places visited
1 Brazil July 22nd - July 28th 2013 Apostolic trip to Rio de Janeiro on the occasion of the XXVIII. World Youth Day
2 Jordan , Palestine , Israel May 24th - May 26th 2014 Apostolic trip to Amman , Bethlehem and Jerusalem to commemorate the meeting of Pope Paul VI. with the Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Athinagoras 50 years earlier and to deepen the "Dialogue of Love" started at that time with his successor Bartholomew I. Invitation to Mahmud Abbas and Shimon Peres to pray for peace in the Vatican.
3 South Korea August 14 - August 18, 2014 Apostolic trip to Seoul and Taejon on the occasion of the sixth Asian Youth Day and to honor Korean martyrs
4th Albania September 21, 2014 Day trip to Tirana ; Visiting victims of dictatorship, asking for peace between religions
5 France November 25, 2014 Day trip to Strasbourg to visit the European Parliament and the Council of Europe
6th Turkey November 28 - November 30, 2014 Meeting with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , various topics
7th Sri Lanka , Philippines January 12 - January 19, 2015 Colombo : Canonization of missionary Joseph Vaz , peace prayer with Tamils and Sinhalese ; Typhoon Memorial Mass in Tacloban ; Fair in Manila
8th Bosnia and Herzegovina June 6, 2015 Day trip to Sarajevo as a “pilgrim for peace” with the request for peace between religions; Holy Mass in the Olympic Stadium in Sarajevo
9 Ecuador , Bolivia , Paraguay July 5 - July 13, 2015 Quito , La Paz , Santa Cruz de la Sierra , Asunción : Environmental protection in the threatened Yasuní National Park , strengthening the rights of the indigenous people and apologizing for offenses by the Catholic Church against the indigenous population of South America, appreciation of the role of women in building up Paraguayan society, other topics
10 Cuba , United States September 19 - September 27, 2015 Havana , Holguín , Santiago de Cuba : appreciation of the relaxation in diplomatic relations between the two countries, in which the Vatican played a mediating role; Strengthening the Catholic faith in Cuba; further topics
Washington, DC , New York , Philadelphia : meeting with US President Barack Obama in the White House to discuss the topics of migration, climate change, poverty and human rights; Canonization of the Franciscan Father Junipero Serra in the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception , speech to the US Congress , the opening of the UN - Sustainability Summit , speech at the World Family Day
11 Kenya , Uganda , Central African Republic November 25 - November 30, 2015 Nairobi : Calling on the government to do more to combat poverty and inequality and to work with integrity and transparency for the common good; Address at the headquarters of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)
Entebbe : Reminder to the leadership of Uganda to ensure the fair distribution of goods
Bangui : Call for tolerance and forgiveness against the background of ongoing violence, opening of the Holy Year of Reconciliation and forgiveness
12 Cuba, Mexico February 12 - February 18, 2016 Havana: Meeting with the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kyrill I.
Mexico City , San Cristóbal de las Casas , Ciudad Juárez : Calling on Mexico’s church to fight the drug cartels, asking for forgiveness for the oppression of the indigenous peoples, closing mass: Remembrance of poverty migrants at the US border
13 Greece April 16, 2016 Day trip to Mytilene on the island of Lesbos ; Visit to the Moria refugee camp together with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I , and the Greek Orthodox Archbishop Hieronymos II. On the return flight, the Pope took twelve Syrian refugees on board to accommodate them in the Vatican.
14th Armenia June 24, 2016– June 26, 2016 Meeting with Karekin II. Nersissian , the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church , with Grégoire Ghabroyan ICPB , the Patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Church , and with President Serzh Sargsyan ; Visit to the memorial in Zizernakaberd and commemoration of the Armenian genocide ; Participation in the celebration of the Divine Liturgy in the Etchmiadzin Cathedral and visit to the Khor Virap Monastery not far from Mount Ararat .
15th Poland July 27, 2016– July 31, 2016 Speech in the main courtyard of the Wawel Royal Castle in Kraków . Meeting with President Duda . Meeting of Polish bishops in Wawel Cathedral. Visit to the Marian pilgrimage site of Czestochowa . Meeting of young people for the XXXI. World Youth Day in Krakow in Blonia Park. Visit of the former concentration and extermination camps Auschwitz / main camp and Auschwitz-Birkenau . Visit to a children's hospital in Krakow. Visit to the Holy Door at the Sanctuary of Divine Mercy in Kraków-Lagiewniki. Meetings with priests, seminarians and religious. Prayer vigil on the “Campus Misericordiae” for the World Youth Days and mass at the end.   
16 Georgia , Azerbaijan September 30, 2016 - October 2, 2016 Tbilisi , Mtseka: meeting with state representatives, appeal to perceive ethnic diversity as an enrichment of the region, meeting with Patriarch Ilia II: preservation of the bond of brotherhood with the Orthodox Church

Baku : Mass in the only church in the country, meeting with the government with an appeal from politicians with a sense of proportion and respect for those who think differently, large interreligious meeting with the Sheik and representatives of other religions    

17th Sweden October 31, 2016 - November 1, 2016 Malmö : Joint divine service with the Lutheran World Federation on the occasion of 500 years of the Reformation with the call to put more emphasis on the commonalities of the religions; Meeting with the Swedish royal couple
18th Egypt April 28, 2017 - April 29, 2017 Cairo : deepening the dialogue with the Muslims, advancing the ecumenical movement with the Coptic Orthodox Christians, meeting with Egypt's President as-Sisi and with the head of the Copts, Pope Tawadros II.
19th Portugal May 12, 2017– May 13, 2017 Visit to Fátima for the 100th anniversary of the apparitions of Mary
20th Colombia September 6, 2017 - September 11, 2017 Bogotá : Support for the process of reconciliation between the government and the FARC rebels, meeting with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos

Villavicencio : Commemoration of the victims of natural disasters.
Medellín : Holy Mass under the motto of the day Christian discipleship.
Cartagena : Blessing of the foundation stones for a shelter for the homeless and girls

21st Myanmar , Bangladesh November 27, 2017 - December 2, 2017 Yangon : Holy Mass, meeting with representatives of other religions, meeting with army chief Min Aung Hlaing

Naypyidaw : Reminder to respect human rights and justice with all ethnic groups, meeting with President Htin Kyaw , meeting with state advisor Aung San Suu Kyi and discussing the situation in Rakhine
Dhaka : Holy Mass with ordination, interreligious dialogue with Muslim refugees of the Rohingya from Myanmar

22nd Chile , Peru January 15, 2018 - January 21, 2018 in Chile: visits to Santiago, Temuco and Iquique; in Peru: visits to Lima, Puerto Maldonado and Trujillo ( it )
23 Switzerland June 21, 2018 Meeting with the World Council of Churches in Geneva , Holy Mass in the Palexpo Hall
24 Ireland August 25, 2018 - August 26, 2018 Trip to Dublin on the occasion of the World Meeting of Families
25th Lithuania , Latvia , Estonia September 22nd - September 25th, 2018 Visits to Vilnius , Kaunas , Riga , Aglona and Tallinn
26th Panama January 23 - January 27, 2019 Apostolic trip to Panama City on the occasion of the XXXIV. World Youth Day
27 United Arab Emirates February 3 - February 5, 2019 Visit to Abu Dhabi , participation in the International Interfaith Meeting on "Human Fraternity"
28 Morocco March 30 - March 31, 2019 Visit of Rabat
29 Bulgaria , North Macedonia May 5 - May 7, 2019 Visit to Sofia , Rakovsky and Skopje
30th Romania May 31 - June 2, 2019 Visit of Bucharest , Iași , Blaj and the Marian shrine Șumuleu Ciuc
31 Mozambique , Madagascar and Mauritius September 4 - September 10, 2019 Visit of Maputo , Antananarivo , Port Louis
32 Thailand and Japan November 19 - November 26, 2019 Visits to various places in Thailand and Tokyo , Nagasaki and Hiroshima

Pastoral and state visits within Italy (including San Marino)

target date occasion
1 Lampedusa , Sicily July 8, 2013 Visit to the refugee island of Lampedusa
2 Cagliari , Sardinia 22nd September 2013 Pastoral visit
3 Assisi , Umbria 4th October 2013 Pastoral visit
4th Cassano all'Ionio , Calabria June 21, 2014 Pastoral visit
5 Molise 5th July 2014 Pastoral visit to the dioceses of Campobasso-Boiano and Isernia-Venafro
6th Caserta , Campania July 26, 2014 Pastoral visit
7th Fogliano Redipuglia , Friuli-Venezia Giulia September 13, 2014 Commemoration chaired by Pope Francis at the military memorial in Redipuglia on the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War
8th Pompeii and Naples , Campania March 21, 2015 Pastoral visit
9 Turin , Piedmont June 21, 2015– June 22, 2015 Pastoral visit with pilgrimage to the Turin Shroud and private meeting of his Italian relatives
10 Prato and Florence , Tuscany November 10, 2015 Pastoral visit on the occasion of the 5th national meeting of the Italian Church
11 Milan March 25, 2017 Pastoral visit with a visit to the Forlanini district
12 Cesena and Bologna October 1, 2017 Pastoral visit on the occasion of the 300th birthday of Pope Pius VI. (Cesena) and the Diocesan Eucharistic Congress (Bologna)
13 Pietrelcina and San Giovanni Rotondo 17th March 2018 Pastoral visit on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of stigma and the 50th anniversary of the death of St. Pio of Pietrelcina
14th Loreto March 25, 2019 Holy Mass in the Holy House and conclusion of the post-synodal writing on the youth synod
15th Camerino June 16, 2019 Visit to the earthquake area
16 Naples June 21, 2019 Participation in the conference Theology according to Veritatis Gaudium in the Mediterranean area of the Pontifical Faculty of Theology of Southern Italy
17th Greccio 29th November 2019 Visit to the Franciscan Shrine and publication of the Apostolic Letter Admirabile Signum on the Nativity Scene

Announced trips outside of Italy

target date Occasion / places visited
Malta postponed indefinitely Apostolic trip to Malta and Gozo

See also

Web links

Commons : Francis Abroad  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Papal trips within Italy in 2013
  2. ↑ Papal trips within Italy in 2014
  3. ^ Papal trips within Italy in 2015
  4. ^ Papal trips within Italy in 2016
  5. ↑ Papal trips within Italy in 2017
  6. ↑ Papal trips within Italy in 2018
  7. ↑ Papal trips within Italy in 2019
  8. ↑ kna: Pope thanks the Albanian Church for their courage. In: domradio.de. September 21, 2014, accessed September 24, 2014 .
  9. ^ Vatican.va: Apostolic Journey
  10. ^ FAZ.net: Pope on the way to Turkey
  11. ↑ spiegel.de: Pope of the poor in Erdogan's palace
  12. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Francis seeks closeness to Islam
  13. ↑ Luxemburger Wort : Pope Francis toured Asia again January 12, 2015, accessed on January 15, 2015.
  14. ↑ Pope Francis in Ecuador: So Close to Heaven ( Memento of July 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Tagesschau
  15. ↑ Oliver Neuroth: Visiting indigenous peoples in Bolivia: Pope asks forgiveness. (No longer available online.) Tagesschau , July 10, 2015, archived from the original on July 11, 2015 ; Retrieved July 17, 2015 .
  16. ↑ Pope praises democratic process in Paraguay. Liechtenstein Fatherland , July 11, 2015, accessed on July 17, 2015 .
  17. ^ Pope Francis first arrived in Cuba. Nordwest-Zeitung , September 20, 2015, accessed on September 20, 2015 .
  18. ↑ Pope and Obama united against climate change and poverty. (No longer available online.) Saarbrücker Zeitung , September 23, 2015, archived from the original on September 25, 2015 ; accessed on March 14, 2017 .
  19. ^ Frank Herrmann: Pope premiere: Francis speaks for the first time before the US Congress. Trierischer Volksfreund , September 24, 2015, accessed on September 25, 2015 .
  20. ↑ Majid Sattar : 70 years of the United Nations: The whole big picture. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 25, 2015, accessed on September 25, 2015 .
  21. ↑ Anette Langer: Pope at World Family Day: "Children cause headaches, not to mention mothers-in-law". Spiegel Online , September 27, 2015, accessed September 29, 2015 .
  22. ↑ The government in Kenya should do more against poverty. (No longer available online.) Deutschlandfunk , November 25, 2015, archived from the original on November 26, 2015 ; Retrieved November 25, 2015 .
  23. ↑ Daniel Pelz: Francis warns of "catastrophic" failure. Deutsche Welle , November 2, 2015, accessed on November 29, 2015 .
  24. ↑ Uganda: Not an easy station for the Pope. Deutschlandfunk, November 28, 2015, accessed on December 29, 2016 .
  25. ↑ Pope campaigns for peace in Bangui. (No longer available online.) St. Galler Tagblatt , November 29, 2015, archived from the original on December 18, 2015 ; accessed on November 30, 2015 .
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  27. ↑ Francis calls on Mexico's church to fight drug trafficking. n-tv , February 13, 2016, accessed on February 19, 2016 .
  28. ↑ Tilmann Kleinjung: "Forgive us, brothers!" Tagesschau, February 15, 2016, accessed on February 19, 2016 .
  29. ↑ On the US-Mexican border: Pope laments the "human tragedy" of forced migration. Spiegel Online, February 18, 2016, accessed February 19, 2016 .
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  31. ↑ After a quick visit to Lesbos: Pope takes refugees with him to Rome. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 16, 2016, accessed on April 16, 2016 .
  32. ↑ Vatican Radio: The Pope's trip to Armenia , accessed on November 11, 2016.
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  34. ↑ Summary of the papal tour: Georgia and Azerbaijan. Vatican Radio , October 2, 2016, accessed December 13, 2016 .
  35. ^ Helmut Steuer: The Pope in Sweden: Franziskus writes church history. Stuttgarter Nachrichten , October 31, 2016, accessed on December 13, 2016 .
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  41. ↑ Pope Francis in Cartagena - With one black eye. In: domradio.de. Domradio, 10 September 2017, accessed on 6 December 2017 .
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  43. ↑ Pope urges Myanmar to respect human rights. (No longer available online.) In: swp.de. Südwest Presse , November 28, 2017, archived from the original on December 6, 2017 ; accessed on December 6, 2017 .
  44. ↑ Pope meets Rohingya refugees in Dhaka. (No longer available online.) In: luzernerzeitung.ch. Luzerner Zeitung , December 1, 2017, archived from the original on December 6, 2017 ; accessed on December 6, 2017 .
  45. ↑ kathisch.de : The worst papal trip of all , January 25, 2018.
  46. ↑ Le pape François en Suisse pour les 70 ans du Conseil œcuménique des Églises . In: La Croix. 2nd March 2018.
  47. ↑ Pellegrinaggio Ecumenico di Sua Santità Francesco a Ginevra (21 giugno 2018) - Program. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, May 7, 2018, accessed May 7, 2018 (Italian).
  48. ↑ Annuncio Viaggio a Dublino per l'Incontro Mondiale delle Famiglie. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , March 21, 2018, accessed May 7, 2018 (Italian).
  49. ^ Pope Francis travels to the Baltic States in September , Catholic News Agency, March 9, 2018.
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  53. ↑ Viaggio Apostolico di Sua Santità Francesco in Marocco (30-31 March 2019) - program. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, February 9, 2019, accessed February 9, 2019 (Italian).
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  57. ^ In Florence the Pope pleaded for a church close to people. Salzburger Nachrichten , October 11, 2015, accessed on February 19, 2016 .
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  59. ↑ Visita pastorale del Santo Padre Francesco alla Diocesi di Bologna. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, April 13, 2017, accessed April 13, 2017 (Italian).
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  62. ↑ Visita del Santo Padre Francesco alle zone terremotate della Diocesi di Camerino - San Severino Marche (16 July 2019) - Programma. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, April 6, 2019, accessed April 6, 2019 (Italian).
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  64. ^ Visita del Santo Padre al Santuario Francescano di Greccio. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, November 29, 2019, accessed December 1, 2019 (Italian).
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