List of pastoral visits of Pope John Paul II outside Italy

Pope John Paul II made a total of 104 pastoral visits outside Italy. By the time of his death in 2005, he had made more foreign trips than any other previous pontiff.

Countries visited

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Pope John Paul II visited 128 countries during his time as pope:
* Nine visits to Poland
* Eight visits to France (incl 1 visit to Réunion)
* Seven visits to USA (incl 2 stopovers in Alaska)
* Five visits to Mexico and Spain
* Four visits to Brazil, Portugal and Switzerland
* Three visits to Austria, Canada, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Czech Republic (incl 1 visit to Czechoslovakia), Slovakia (incl 1 visit to Czechoslovakia), Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Germany, Guatemala, Kenya and Malta
* Two visits to Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles), Democratic Republic of Congo, Hungary, India, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Slovenia, Uruguay, Venezuela
* One visit to Albania, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, East Timor (then part of Indonesia), Ecuador, Egypt (to Mount Sinai), Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, Gabon, Georgia, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, Indonesia, Israel (to the West Bank), Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico (United States), Republic of Ireland, Republic of South Africa, Romania, Rwanda, San Marino, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, Sudan, Swaziland, Sweden, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Gambia, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
* Countries of at least 10 million population not visited: People's Republic of China, Russia, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Iran, Myanmar, Algeria, Afghanistan, Nepal, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Malaysia, North Korea, Republic of China (Taiwan), Yemen, Cambodia, Niger, Serbia and Belarus

Chronological list

# January 25 — February 1, 1979 - Dominican Republic, Mexico, the Bahamas
# June 2 — June 10, 1979 - Poland
# September 29 — October 8, 1979 - Republic of Ireland and the United States (Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Des Moines, Chicago, and Washington, DC)
# November 28 — November 30, 1979 - Turkey
# May 2 — May 12, 1980 - Zaire, Congo, Kenya, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire
# May 30 — June 2, 1980 - France
# June 30 — July 12, 1980 - Brazil
# November 15 — November 19, 1980 - Germany
# February 16 — February 27, 1981 - Pakistan, the Philippines, Guam (USA), Japan, the USA (Anchorage only)
# February 12 — February 19, 1982 - Nigeria, Benin, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea
# May 12 — May 15, 1982 - Portugal
# May 28 — June 2, 1982 - United Kingdom
# June 10 — June 13, 1982 - Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Argentina
# June 15, 1982 - Geneva (Switzerland)
# August 29, 1982 - San Marino
# October 31 — November 9, 1982 - Spain
# March 2 — March 10, 1983 - Lisbon (Portugal), Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, Haiti
# June 16 June 23, 1983 - Poland
# August 14 — August 15, 1983 - Lourdes (France)
# September 10 — September 13, 1983 - Austria
# May 2 — May 12, 1984 - the USA (Fairbanks, Alaska only), Republic of Korea, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Thailand
# June 12 — June 17, 1984 - Switzerland
# September 9 — September 21, 1984 - Canada
# October 10 — October 13, 1984 - Zaragoza (Spain), Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), San Juan (Puerto Rico)
# January 26 — February 6, 1985 - Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago
# May 11 — May 21, 1985 - the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium
# August 8 — August 19, 1985 - Togo, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Zaire, Kenya, Morocco
# September 8, 1985 - Kloten (Switzerland), Liechtenstein
# January 31 — February 11, 1986 - India
# July 1 — July 8, 1986 - St. Lucia, Colombia
# October 4 — October 7, 1986 - France
# November 18 — December 1, 1986 - Bangladesh, Singapore, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, the Seychelles
# March 31 — April 13, 1987 - Chile, Uruguay, Argentina
# April 30 — May 4, 1987 - Germany
# June 8 — June 14, 1987 - Poland
# September 10 — September 21, 1987 - United States (Miami, Columbia, SC, New Orleans, San Antonio, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Monterey, CA, San Francisco, Detroit), Fort Simpson (Canada) [ [http://www.usccb.org/pope/ustravel.htm Pope John Paul II’s Travels Visits to the United States] ]
# May 7 — May 18, 1988 - Uruguay, Bolivia, Lima (Peru), Paraguay, Curaçao
# June 23 — June 27, 1988 - Austria
# September 10 — September 19, 1988 - Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique
# October 8 — October 11, 1988 - France
# April 28 — May 6, 1989 - Madagascar, Réunion, Zambia, Malawi
# June 1 — June 10, 1989 - Norway, Iceland, Finland, Denmark, Sweden
# August 19 — August 21, 1989 - Santiago de Compostela and Asturias (both Spain)
# October 6 — October 16, 1989 - Seoul (Republic of Korea), Indonesia, Mauritius
# January 25 — February 1, 1990 - Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad
# April 21 — April 22, 1990 - Czechoslovakia
# May 6 — May 14, 1990 - Mexico, Curaçao
# May 25 — May 27, 1990 - Malta
# September 1 — September 10, 1990 - Luqa (Malta), Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Yamoussoukro (Côte d'Ivoire)
# May 5 — May 13, 1991 - Portugal
# June 1 — June 9, 1991 - Poland
# August 13 — August 20, 1991 - Częstochowa (Poland), Hungary
# October 12 — October 21, 1991 - Brazil
# February 19 — February 26, 1992 - Senegal, Gambia, Guinea
# June 4 — June 10, 1992 - Angola, São Tomé and Príncipe
# October 9 — October 14, 1992 - Dominican Republic
# February 3 — February 10, 1993 - Benin, Uganda, Khartoum (Sudan)
# April 25 1993 - Albania
# June 12 — June 17, 1993 - Spain
# August 9 — August 16, 1993 - Jamaica, Mérida (Mexico), Denver (USA)
# September 4 — September 10, 1993 - Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia
# September 10 — September 11, 1994 - Zagreb (Croatia)
# January 11 — January 21, 1995 - Manila (Philippines), Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea), Sydney (Australia), Colombo (Sri Lanka)
# May 20 — May 22, 1995 - Czech Republic, Poland
# June 3 — June 4, 1995 - Belgium
# June 30 — July 3, 1995 - Slovakia
# September 14 — September 20, 1995 - Yaoundé (Cameroon), Johannesburg (Republic of South Africa), Nairobi (Kenya)
# October 4 — October 9, 1995 - Newark, East Rutherford, New York, United Nations, [ UN document |docid=A-50-PV.20 |body=General Assembly |type=Verbotim Report |session=50 |meeting=20 |page=2 |anchor=pg002-bk05 |date=5 October 1995 |speakername=His Holiness Pope John Paul II | speakernation=Holy See |accessdate=2008-07-01 ] Yonkers, Baltimore (all USA)
# February 5 — February 12, 1996 - Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Venezuela
# April 14, 1996 - Tunisia
# May 17 — May 19, 1996 - Slovenia
# June 21 — June 23, 1996 - Germany
# September 6 — September 7, 1996 - Hungary
# September 19 — September 22, 1996 - France
# April 12 — April 13, 1997 - Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
# April 25 — April 27, 1997 - Czech Republic
# May 10 — May 11, 1997 - Beirut (Lebanon)
# May 31 — June 10, 1997 - Poland
# August 21 — August 24, 1997 - Paris (France)
# October 2 — October 6, 1997 - Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
# January 21 — January 26, 1998 - Cuba
# March 21 — March 23, 1998 - Nigeria
# June 19 — June 21, 1998 - Austria
# October 2 — October 4, 1998 - Croatia
# January 22 — January 28, 1999 - St. Louis (USA), Mexico
# May 7 — May 9, 1999 - Romania
# June 5 — June 17, 1999 - Poland
# September 19, 1999 - Slovenia
# October 5 — October 9, 1999 - New Delhi (India), Georgia
# February 24 — February 26, 2000 - Mount Sinai (Egypt)
# March 20 — March 26, 2000 - Jordan, the West Bank, Israel
# May 12 — May 13, 2000 - Fatima (Portugal)
# May 5 — May 9, 2001 - Malta, Greece, Syria
# June 23 — June 27, 2001 - Ukraine, including Babi Yar, where many Jews were massacred in the Holocaust
# September 22 — September 27, 2001 - Kazakhstan, Armenia
# May 22 — May 26, 2002 - Azerbaijan, Bulgaria
# July 23 — August 2, 2002 - Toronto Canada, Guatemala (including Antigua Guatemala), Mexico
# August 18 — August 19, 2002 - Poland
# May 3 — May 4, 2003 - Spain
# June 5 — June 9, 2003 - Croatia
# June 22, 2003 - Bosnia and Herzegovina
# September 11 — September 14, 2003 - Slovakia
# June 5, 2004 - Switzerland
# August 14 — August 15, 2004 - Lourdes (France)

References

* [http://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/documentazione/documents/santopadre_biografie/giovanni_paolo_ii_biografia_pontificato_en.html Events in the Pontificate of John Paul II] from the Vatican

External links

* [http://www.pwnhc.ca/timeline/1975/Pope_1987.html 1987 Papal visit to Fort Simpson NWT]