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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.
Pope Francis' visit to the U.S. begins in Washington, D.C., moves to New York City and wraps up in Philadelphia -- and his East Coast tour is expected to bring in major cash for local economies. ...
On the day of his election, the Vatican clarified that his official papal name was "Francis" and not "Francis I", i.e. no regnal number is used for him. His name would become Francis I if and when there is a Francis II. [163] [168] It is the first time since Lando's 913–914 pontificate that a serving pope holds a name not used by a ...
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. established full diplomatic relations with the Holy See in 1984.
Pope Francis will say Mass for an expected crowd of 60,000 people on Tuesday, his first big open-air event on a trip to Canada centred around apologizing for the Catholic Church's role in ...
Pope Francis left Rome on Monday for Jakarta, where the 87-year-old leader of the global Catholic Church will start an ambitious 12-day tour to four countries in Southeast Asia. The flight ...
2018 visit by Pope Francis to the Baltic states; J. List of pastoral visits of Pope John Paul II; ... World Youth Day 1987; World Youth Day 1989; World Youth Day 1991;
Pope Francis kicked off his extensive 12-day tour of four Asian countries on a humble note by opting to use a family car and ditching a luxury hotel stay as he arrived in Muslim-majority Indonesia ...