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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.
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.
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 ...
On March 27, 2014, Obama and Pope Francis met in Rome; this was followed by Pope Francis's 2015 visit to North America in September 2015, where, after visiting Cuba, he went to the U.S., and participated in the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, and also visited Washington, D.C., and New York City. [29]
In 2015, three months after Biden’s eldest son, Beau, died of brain cancer, the pope held a private audience with the president and his family before wrapping up a multiday visit to Philadelphia ...
List of pastoral visits of Pope Francis; Visit by Pope Francis to Ireland; State visit by Pope Francis to Kenya; 2015 visit by Pope Francis to North America; Visit by Pope Francis to the Philippines; 2018 visit by Pope Francis to the Baltic states
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