Papal visits to the United States
Pope Francis will visit Washington, New York and Philadelphia Sept. 22-27.
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The first pontiff to set foot in the United States was Pope Paul VI, who made a one-day stop in New York to address the United Nations in 1965. John Paul II visited the U.S. seven times, two of them quick stopovers in Alaska. The papal visits:
Pope Paul VI
Oct. 4, 1965 — United Nations headquarters
Pope John Paul II
Oct. 1-7, 1979 — Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington and Des Moines
Feb. 2, 1981 — Anchorage stopover
May 2, 1984 — Fairbanks, Alaska, stopover
Sept. 10-19, 1987 — Miami; Columbia, S.C.; New Orleans; San Antonio; Phoenix; Los Angeles; San Francisco; Detroit
Aug. 12-15, 1993 — Denver
Oct. 4-8, 1995 — Newark, N.J., New York and Baltimore
Jan. 26-27, 1999 — St. Louis
Pope Benedict XVI
April 14-20, 2008 — Washington and New York
Pope Francis
Sept. 22-27, 2015 — Washington, New York and Philadelphia
Source: U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
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