Pope John Paul II’s Travels
Journeys Outside of Italy
1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990
1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
1979
- January 25–February 1
Dominican Republic, Mexico, with a stopover in the Bahamas
- June 2–10
Poland
- September 29–October 7
Ireland and the United States. The US leg of the trip began October 1.
- November 28–30
Turkey
- May 2–12
Zaire, Congo, Kenya, Ghana, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) and Ivory Coast
- May 30–June 2
France
- June 30–July 12
Brazil
- November 15–19
West Germany
- February 16–27
Philippines, Guam, and Japan, with stopovers of several hours in Pakistan and in Anchorage, Alaska
- February 12–19
Nigeria, Benin, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea
- May 12–15
Portugal (including Fatima)
- May 28–June 2
Great Britain
- June 10–13
Argentina (stopover in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
- June 15
Switzerland
- August 29
San Marino
- October 31–November 9
Spain
- March 2–10
Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Haiti
(stopover in Lisbon, Portugal)
- June 16–23
Poland
- August 14–15
Lourdes, France
- September 10–13
Austria
- May 2–12
South Korea, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Thailand (stopover in Fairbanks, Alaska)
- June 12–17
Switzerland
- September 9–20
Canada
- October 10–12
Spain, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico
- January 26–February 6
Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago
- May 11–21
Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg
- August 8–19
Togo, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Zaire, Kenya, Morocco
- September 8
Liechtenstein
- February 1–February 10
India
- July 1–8
Colombia, St. Lucia
- October 4–7
France
- November 19–December 1
Australia, New Zealand, Bangladesh, Fiji, Singapore, Seychelles
- March 31–April 13
Uruguay, Chile, Argentina
- April 30–May 4
West Germany
- June 8–14
Poland
- September 10–20
United States and Canada
- May 7–18
Uruguay, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay
- June 23–27
Austria
- September 10–19
Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, with a detour through South Africa
- October 8–11
France
- April 28–May 6
Madagascar, Reunion, Zambia, and Malawi
- June 1–10
Norway, Iceland, Finland, Denmark, Sweden
- August 19–21
Spain
- October 6–16
South Korea, Indonesia, East Timor, Mauritius
- January 25–February 1
Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad
- April 21–22
Czechoslovakia
- May 6–13
Mexico, Curacao
- May 25–27
Malta
- September 1–10
Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Ivory Coast
- May 10–13
Portugal
- June 1–9
Poland
- August 13–20
Poland, Hungary
- October 12–21
Brazil
- February 19–26
Senegal, Gambia, Guinea
- June 4–10
Angola, São Tomé, Principe
- October 9–14
Dominican Republic
- February 3–10
Benin, Uganda, Sudan
- April 25
Albania
- June 12–17
Spain
- August 9–16
Jamaica, Mexico, United States (World Youth Day held in Denver)
- September 4–10
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia
- September 10–11
Croatia
- January 12–21
Philippines, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka
- May 20–22
Czech Republic, Poland
- June 3–4
Belgium
- June 30
Slovakia
- September 14–20
Cameroon, Kenya, South Africa
- October 4–8
United States
- February 5–12
Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Venezuela
- April 14
Tunisia
- May 17–19
Slovenia
- June 21–23
Germany
- September 6–7
Hungary
- September 19–22
France
- April 12–13
Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
- April 25–27
Czech Republic
- May 10–11
Lebanon
- May 31–June 10
Poland
- August 21–24
France
- October 2–5
Brazil
- January 21–25
Cuba
- March 21–23
Nigeria
- June 19–21
Austria
- October 2–4
Croatia
- January 22–25
Mexico City, Mexico
January 26–27
St. Louis, Missouri
- May 7–9
Romania
- June 5–17
Poland
- September 19
Slovenia
- November 5–9
New Delhi, India, and Tbilisi, Georgia
- Feb. 24–26
Egypt
- March 20–26
Jordan, Israel, Palestinian Autonomous Territory
- May 12–13
Fatima, Portugal
- May 4–5
Athens, Greece
May 5–6
Syria
May 8–9
Malta
- June 23–27
Ukraine
- September 22–27
Armenia and Kazakstan
- May 22–26
Azerbaijan and Bulgaria
- July 23–August 1
Canada, Guatemala, and Mexico
- August 16–19
Poland
- May 3–4
Spain
- June 5–9
Croatia
- June 22
Bosnia-Herzegovina - September 11-14
Slovakia
- June 5-6
Switzerland
- August 14-15
Lourdes, France
From: John Paul II: A Light for the World, edited by Sister Mary Ann Walsh, RSM. © 2003 United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Inc., Published by Sheed & Ward. All rights reserved. For more information on this publication, go to www.popebook.com Updated with information from Vatican Information Service and Catholic News Service.

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