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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.
On 21 September 2014, he met Pope Francis during his apostolic visit to Albania and provided the pope with his own testimony on his experiences under the Communist regime. [5] On 9 October 2016, [6] Pope Francis announced that he would create Simoni a cardinal in the consistory held on 19 November of the same year. [7]
Pope John Paul II was the first Pope to visit Albania, which took place immediately after the fall of communism [113] Pope Francis visited Albania on 24 September 2014, which was the first nation in Europe he has visited [citation needed] Albania is home to 520,000 Roman Catholics, and is the second largest religion in the country, after Islam ...
The apostolic nunciature in Albania started as an apostolic delegation to Albania by Pope Benedict XV on 12 November 1920, and was elevated to the full rank of a nunciature by Pope John Paul II on 16 January 1991. The current apostolic nuncio to Albania is Charles John Brown, who was appointed by Pope Francis on 9 March 2017.
King Charles and Queen Camilla will travel to Italy and the Vatican in April to meet with Pope Francis, as the Catholic Church celebrates a special Jubilee year, which takes place every quarter of ...
Relations were reestablished in 1991, after the fall of communism in Albania. Pope John Paul II was the first Pope to visit Albania, which took place immediately after the fall of communism. Pope Francis visited Albania on 21 September, which the first nation in Europe he visited. [252]
In September 2014, Pope Francis made an official state visit to Tirana simultaneously becoming the second pontiff to visit Albania, after Pope John Paul II in 1992. [39] [40] Following the municipal elections of 2015, power was transferred from the Democratic Party representative Lulzim Basha to the Socialist Party candidate Erion Veliaj. [41]
On 1980 a fountain was placed on the middle of the square and after the Fall of communism in Albania it was named after Mother Teresa and a statue of her was placed on the east side of the square. Both the statue and the fountain were later removed, after the restoration of the square in 2014 caused by the preparations for the Pope Francis ...