Pope John Paul II�s Travels
Journeys Outside of Italy
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, S�o Tom�, 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.
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