List of pastoral visits of Pope John Paul II
Voyage Dates Nations visited Places visited
5 2-6 May 1980 Zaire Kinshasa , Kisangani
5 5 May 1980 Republic of the Congo Brazzaville
5 6-8 May 1980 Kenya Nairobi
5 8-10 May 1980 Ghana Accra , Kumasi
5 10 May 1980 Upper Volta Ouagadougou
5 10-12 May 1980 Côte d'Ivoire Abidjan , Adzopé
6 30 May-2 June 1980 France Lisieux
7 30 June-12 July 1980 Brazil Brasília , Belo Horizonte , Rio de Janeiro , São Paulo , Aparecida , Porto Alegre Curitiba , Salvador , Recife , Teresina , Belém , Fortaleza , Manaus
8 15-19 November 1980 West Germany Cologne , Osnabrück , Mainz , Fulda , Altötting , Munich
9 16 February 1981 Pakistan Karachi
9 17-22 February 1981 Philippines Manila , Cebu , Davao , Bacolod , Iloilo , Legazpi , Baguio , Morong
9 22-23 February 1981 Guam Agaña
9 23-26 February 1981 Japan Tokyo , Hiroshima , Nagasaki
9 26 February 1981 United States Anchorage
10 12-17 February 1982 Nigeria Lagos , Onitsha , Enugu , Kaduna , Ibadan
10 17 February 1982 Benin Cotonou
10 18-18 February 1982 Equatorial Guinea Malabo , Bata
10 18-19 February 1982 Gabon Libreville
11 12-15 May 1982 Portugal Lisbon , Fátima , Coimbra , Braga , Porto
12 28 May-2 June 1982 United Kingdom London , Canterbury , Coventry , Liverpool Manchester , York , Edinburgh , Glasgow , Cardiff
Travels outside Italy -- 1980s
On 3 June 1980 , he made a pilgrimage to Lisieux in northern France , the home town of St. Therese of the Child Jesus of the Holy Face . [ 12 ] In 1997 he declared St. Therese the third woman Doctor of the Church . [ 13 ] His 1980 visit to France was the first by a pope since 1814 and his journey to West Germany in November 1980 was the first since 1782 . [ 14 ] The Pope with U.S. President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan , 1982 On 18 February 1981 , he beatified several martyrs , including those later canonized , St. Lorenzo Ruiz and Magdalene of Nagasaki , in Manila . This was the first beatification to be held outside Vatican City . He became the first reigning pope to travel to the United Kingdom in 1982 , where he met Queen Elizabeth II , the Supreme Governor of the Church of England . This trip was in danger of being cancelled due to the then current Falklands War ( Spanish : Guerra de las Malvinas/Guerra del Atlántico Sur ) , against which he spoke out during the visit . In a dramatic symbolic gesture , he knelt in prayer alongside Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie , in the See of the Church of England , Canterbury Cathedral , founded by St Augustine of Canterbury . They prayed at the site of the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket , meant as a show of friendship between the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches . Pope John Paul II was the first Pontiff to visit Scotland . 300,000 of the Roman Catholic minority in that country celebrated Mass with the Pope at Bellahoustan Park . On this visit the Pope faced protest from Protestant Pastor Jack Glass and his followers . This visit had to be balanced for fairness with an unscheduled trip to Argentina that June . [ 15 ] Throughout his trips , he stressed his devotion to the Virgin Mary through visits to various shrines to the Virgin Mary , notably Knock in Ireland , Fatima in Portugal , Guadalupe in Mexico , Aparecida in Brazil and Lourdes in France . In 1984 , John Paul became the first Pope to visit Puerto Rico . Stands were specially erected for him at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan , where he met with governor Carlos Romero Barceló , and at Plaza Las Americas . The pope made a pastoral trip to Singapore in 1986 , and was received by the Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew in the Istana . Following that , the Pope made pastoral speeches concerning the Catholic doctrines in the National Stadium of Singapore , which was viewed by a large audience .
During his reign, Pope John Paul II (The Pilgrim Pope) made 104 foreign trips, more than all previous popes combined. In total he logged more than . He consistently attracted large crowds on his travels, some among the largest ever assembled. While some of his trips (such as to the United States and the Israel) were to places that were previously visited by Paul VI (the first pope to travel widely), many others were to countries that no pope had ever previously visited.