The Pope is to arrive on 16 September, the first papal visit since 1982.
In 1982, Pope John Paul II arrived in Britain on the first papal visit there since 1531.
In 1979, Pope John Paul II arrived in Ireland for the first ever Papal visit to the country.
In 1991, Pope John Paul II began the first-ever papal visit to Hungary.
Tourism officials hope the papal visit will put Guanajuato state on the map.
But just before the curtain came down on the papal visit on Sunday, the answer became clear: John Paul II.
It is the first papal visit to some of Christianity's most holy places since Pope John Paul II made the pilgrimage in 2000.
The map of Israel has changed several times since then - making the sensibilities of the second papal visit as complex as ever.
The papal visit has revived a sense of unity and pride among Syria's 2.4 million Christians, who have retained their faith through centuries in a Muslim-dominated country of 17 million.
Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Cuba's southeastern city of Santiago de Cuba on Monday, delivering Mass before throngs of Cubans in only the second papal visit in the island's history.
Chris Patten, a Conservative politician (and co-organiser of the papal visit) is chancellor of Oxford University, an institution that Catholics avoided attending (until the pope allowed them, in 1896) even after Anglicans admitted them.
In one of his first acts as pope, Francis on Thursday morning planned to visit Benedict at the papal retreat in Castel Gandolfo south of Rome.
Dolan said the newly elected pope will visit his predecessor Benedict XVI on Thursday at the papal retreat in Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome.
Although the purpose of the pope's visit was the beatification of Father Cyprian Iwene Tansi, papal officials leaked the information that he had given General Abacha a list of some 60 political detainees with a plea for their release.
Two children from Greece's small Roman Catholic community held a bowl filled with Greek soil for the traditional papal kiss -- a ceremony that was in doubt over worries it could enrage those opposing the visit.
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