List of pastoral visits of Pope John Paul II
1970s
Pope John Paul II's first foreign journey was a three-country visit to the Dominican Republic, Mexico and the Bahamas in January 1979.

List of pastoral visits of Pope John Paul II

Section Title: 1970s
Table Section Text: Pope John Paul II's first foreign journey was a three-country visit to the Dominican Republic, Mexico and the Bahamas in January 1979.

Voyage	Dates	Nations visited	Places visited	Information

1	25– 26 January 1979	Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo, Santiago de los Caballeros

26 January–1 February 1979	Mexico	México, Oaxaca de Juárez, Guadalajara, Monterrey	Attended the Third General Conference of the Latin American Bishops held in Puebla

1 February 1979	The Bahamas	Nassau	Technical Stopover

2	2–10 June 1979	Poland	Warsaw, Gniezno, Częstochowa, Kraków, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, Wadowice, Brzezinka, Nowy Targ	Commemoration of the 900th Anniversary of the death of St. Stanislaus and the completion of the Diocesan Synod in Kraków

3	29 September–1 October 1979	Ireland	Dublin, Drogheda, Galway, Knock, Limerick, Maynooth	Centenary of the Knock apparitions.

1–8 October 1979	United States	Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Des Moines, Chicago, Washington, D.C.	Address to the United Nations General Assembly (October 2) where he condemned all uses of concentration camps and torture.

4	28–30 November 1979	Turkey	Istanbul, Izmir, Ankara	Met with Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople and Patriarch Shenork I Kaloustian of Constantinople

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Ireland was one of John Paul's foreign visits as Pope.

final_sentence: Ireland was one of John Paul's foreign visits as Pope.