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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

1980

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

1981

February 16–27
Philippines, Guam, and Japan, with stopovers of several hours in Pakistan and in Anchorage, Alaska

1982

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

1983

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

1984

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

1985

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

1986

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

1987

March 31–April 13
Uruguay, Chile, Argentina
April 30–May 4
West Germany
June 8–14
Poland
September 10–20
United States and Canada

1988

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

1989

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

1990

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

1991

May 10–13
Portugal
June 1–9
Poland
August 13–20
Poland, Hungary
October 12–21
Brazil

1992

February 19–26
Senegal, Gambia, Guinea
June 4–10
Angola, São Tomé, Principe
October 9–14
Dominican Republic

1993

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

1994

September 10–11
Croatia

1995

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

1996

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

1997

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

1998

January 21–25
Cuba
March 21–23
Nigeria
June 19–21
Austria
October 2–4
Croatia

1999

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

2000

Feb. 24–26
Egypt
March 20–26
Jordan, Israel, Palestinian Autonomous Territory
May 12–13
Fatima, Portugal

2001

May 4–5
Athens, Greece
May 5–6
Syria
May 8–9
Malta
June 23–27
Ukraine
September 22–27
Armenia and Kazakstan

2002

May 22–26
Azerbaijan and Bulgaria
July 23–August 1
Canada, Guatemala, and Mexico
August 16–19
Poland

2003

May 3–4
Spain
June 5–9
Croatia
June 22
Bosnia-Herzegovina
September 11-14
Slovakia

2004

June 5-6
Switzerland
August 14-15
Lourdes, France

Pope John Paul II has traveled approximately 742,000 miles, according to an October 15, 2002, report from the Vatican Information Service marking the 24th anniversary of the Holy Father’s election as Pope.

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.