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HOW BEAUTIFUL UPON THE MOUNTAINS ARE THE FEET OF HIM THAT BRINGETH GOOD TIDINGS, THAT PUBLISHETH PEACE; THAT BRINGETH GOOD TIDINGS OF GOOD, THAT PUBLISHETH SALVATION; THAT SAITH UNTO ZION, THY GOD REIGNETH! THY WATCHMEN SHALL LIFT UP THE VOICE; WITH THE VOICE TOGETHER SHALL THEY SING; FOR THEY SHALL SEE EYE TO EYE, WHEN THE LORD SHALL BRING AGAIN ZION."
(Isaiah 52:7-8). 
APOSTOLIC VOYAGES OF JOHN PAUL II (Total 104)
 
1.   Jan 25 to Feb 1, 1979: Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), Mexico for the Third General Conference of the Latin American Bishops and the Bahamas. 
2.   Jun 2 to 10, 1979:  Poland. (Historic homily of John Paul II at Victory Square in Warsaw: "It is not possible to understand the history of the Polish nation without Christ").
3.   Sep 29 to Oct 8, 1979: Ireland, the U.N., and the United States of America.
4.   Nov 28 to 30, 1979: Turkey.
5.   May 2 to 12, 1980: Zaire, Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Ghana, Upper Volta and Ivory Coast.
6.   May 30 to Jun 2, 1980: France. (June 2, he addressed to UNESCO in Paris).
7.   Jun 30 to Jul 12, 1980: Brazil.
8.   Nov 15 to 19, 1980: West Germany.
9.   Feb 16 to 27, 1981: Pakistan, Philippines, Guam (USA), Japan and Anchorage (USA).
10. Feb 12 to 19, 1982: Nigeria, Benin, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.
11. May 12 to 15, 1982: Portugal, one year after the assassination attempt on his life in St. Peter's Square. (Before the statue of Our Lady of Fátima, John Paul II recites the Act of consecration and entrustment of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary).
12. May 28 to Jun 2, 1982: Great Britain. (Joint statement of John Paul II and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Robert Runcie , at the end of the ecumenical celebration in the Anglican Canterbury Cathedral).
13. Jun 10 to 13, 1982: Rio de Janeiro and in Argentina, in relation to the war between Argentina and Great Britain regarding the Falkland Islands/Malvinas.
14. Jun 15, 1982: Genève. (Speech by John Paul II at the 68th Session of the International Workers Conference in Geneva).
15. Aug 29, 1982: Republic of San Marino and Rimini.
16. Oct 31 to Nov 9, 1982: Spain for the closure of the 4th Centenary of the death of St. Teresa of Ávila. (Message to the peoples of Europe from the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela).
17. Mar 2 to 10, 1983: Lisbon (Portugal) and Central America (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize and Haiti).
18. Jun 16 t0 23, 1983: Poland.
19. Aug 14 to 15, 1983: Lourdes.
20. Sep 10 to 13, 1983: Austria.
21. May 2 to 12, 1984: Korea, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Thailand.
22. Jun 12 to 17, 1984: Switzerland.
23. Sep 9 to 20, 1984: Canada.
24. Oct 10 to 13, 1984: Zaragoza (Spain), Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) and San Juan (Puerto Rico).
25. Jan 26 to Feb 6, 1985: Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Trinidad and Tobago.
26. May 11 to 21, 1985: Netherlands, Luxembourg  and Belgium.
27. Aug 8 to 19, 1985: Togo, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Republic of Central Africa, Zaire, Kenya and Morocco.
28. Sep 8, 1985: Kloten (Switzerland) and Liechtenstein.
29. Jan 31 to Feb 10, 1986: India. (Celebrated the beatification of the Venerable Father Kuriakos Elias Chavara and of the Venerable Sister Alphonsa of the Syro Malabar Church of India during the visit).
30. Jul 1 to 8, 1986: Colombia and St Lucia.
31. Oct 4 to 7, 1986: France (East-Central region).
32. Nov 18 to Dec 1, 1986: Bangladesh, Singapore, Fiji Islands, New Zealand, Australia and Seychelles.
33. Mar 31 to Apr 13, 1987: Uruguay, Chile and Argentina , and celebration in Buenos Aires of the II World Youth Day.
34. Apr 30 to May 4, 1987: Federal Republic of Germany.
35. Jun 8 to 14, 1987: Poland.
36. Sep 10 to 21, 1987: USA and Fort Simpson (Canada).
37. Mar 7 to 9, 1988: Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay and Lima (Perú).
38. Jun 23 to 27, 1988: Austria.
39. Sep 10 to 20, 1988: Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique and Swaziland.
40. Oct 8 to 11, 1988: European Institutions of Strasbourg and to the Dioceses of Strasbourg, Metz and Nancy.
41. Apr 28 to May 6, 1989: Madagascar, La Réunion, Zambia and Malawi.
42. Jun 1 to 10, 1989: Norway, Iceland, Finland, Denmark and Sweden.
43. Aug 19 to 21, 1989: Santiago de Compostela for the 4th World Youth Day and in Asturias.
44. Oct 6 to 10, 1989: Seoul (Korea), Indonesia and Mauritius.
45. Jan 25 to Feb 1, 1990: Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Burkina Faso and Chad.
46. Apr 21 to 22, 1990: Czechoslovakia. (In Velehrad, John Paul II announces a Special Assembly for Europe of the Synod of Bishops).
47. May 6 to 14, 1990: Mexico and Curaçao.
48. May 25 to 27, 1990: Malta. (During his Angelus message John Paul II makes an appeal for peace in the Persian Gulf, following the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq).
49. Sep 1 to 10, 1990: Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and Yamoussoukro.
50. May 10 to 13, 1991: Portugal.
51. Jun 1 to 9, 1991: Poland.
52. Aug 13 to 20, 1991: Poland, at Częstochowa for the 6th World Youth Day and in Hungary.
53. Oct 12 to 21, 1991: Brazil.
54. Feb 19 to 26, 1992: Senegal, Gambia and Guinea.
55. Jun 4 to 10, 1992: Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe.
56. Oct 9 to 14, 1992: Santo Domingo for the 5th centenary of the evangelization of Latin America and for the Fourth General Conference of the Latin American Episcopate. (Apostolic Constitution Fidei depositum  - on the publication of the Catechism of the Catholic Church edited after the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council).
57. Feb 3 to 10, 1993: Benin, Uganda and Khartoum.
58. Apr 25, 1993: Albania.
59. Jun 12 to 17, 1993: Spain.
60. Aug 9 to 16, 1993: Jamaica, Merida and Denver for  the 8th World Youth Day.
61. Sep 4 to 10, 1993: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
62. Sep 10 to 11, 1994: Croatia.
63. Jan 11 to 21, 1995: Manila for the 10th World Youth Day, to Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea), Sydney (Australia) and Colombo (Sri Lanka).  (Broadcasted over Radio Veritas at Manila, John Paul II reads a message to Chinese Catholics).
64. May 20 to 22, 1995: Czech Republic.
65. Jun 3 to 4, 1995: Belgium.
66. Jun 30 to Jul 3, 1995: Slovakia.
67. Sep 14 to 20, 1995:  Yaoundé (Cameroon), Johannesburg/Pretoria (S. Africa) and Nairobi (Kenya) for the closing of the Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops. (Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in Africa - on the Church in Africa and its Evangelizing Mission towards the Year 2000, signed by the Holy Father in the Apostolic Nunciature of Yaoundé (the first time such an important document is signed outside the Vatican).
68. Oct 4 to 9, 1995: New York, Newark, Brooklyn and Baltimore (USA). (Holy Father addresses the UN General Assembly, commemorates UN's 50th anniversary).
69. Feb 5 to 12, 1996: Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Venezuela.
70. Apr 14, 1996: Tunis.
71. May 17 to 19, 1996: Slovenia.
72. Jun 21 to 23, 1996: Germany. (Historic speech at the gate of Brandeburg, and the announcement of the new Synod for Europe).
73. Sep 6 to 7, 1996: Hungary.
74. Sep 19 to 22, 1996: France.
75. Apr 12 to 13, 1997: Sarajevo.
76. Apr 25 to 27, 1997: Czech Republic.
77. May 10 to 11, 1997:  Beirut for the concluding phase of the Special Assembly for Lebanon of the Synod of Bishops.  (John Paul II signs the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation A New Hope for Lebanon , at the end of a meeting with young people in Our Lady of Lebanon Basilica in Harissa).
78. May 31 to Jun 10, 1997: Poland.
79. Aug 21 to 24, 1997: Paris for the 12th World Youth Day.
80. Oct 2 to 6, 1997: Rio de Janeiro.
81. Jan 21 to 26, 1998: Cuba. (Meeting with the President of Cuba, Fidel Castro Ruz, at the Palacio de la Revolución).
82. Mar 21 to 23, 1998: Nigeria.
83. Jun 19, 1998: Austria.
84. Oct 2 to 4, 1998: Croatia.
85. Jan 22 to 28, 1999: Mexico City and St. Louis, USA for the Closing of the Special Assembly for America of the Synod of Bishops.  (Signing of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in America, in Mexico City).
86. May 7 to 9, 1999: Romania. (In Bucharest, Romania, the Holy Father met with His Beatitude Teoctist , patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, and with the Holy Synod. At the end of the meeting, the Pope and Patriarch Teoctist sign a joint declaration for peace in Kosovo).
87. Jun 5 to 17, 1999: Poland.
88. Sep 19, 1999: Slovenia.
89. Nov 5 to 9, 1999: New Delhi (India) for the Conclusion of the Special Assembly for Asia of the Synod of Bishops and in Georgia. (Signing - in the Sacred Heart Cathedral in New Delhi - of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in Asia).
90. Feb 24 to 26, 2000: Jubilee Pilgrimage to Mount Sinai.
91. Mar 20 to 26, 2000: Jubilee Pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
92. May 12 to 13, 2000: Fátima. (At the end of the Beatification ceremony at Fatima of Francesco and Giacinta Marto, Cardinal Angelo Sodano announced that the "third part" of the secret of Fatima will be made public. The Message of Fatima will be published in its entirety on 26 June 2000).
93. May 4 to 9, 2001: Jubilee Pilgrimage in Greece, Syria and Malta on the footsteps of  St. Paul the Apostle.
94. Jun 23 to 27, 2001: Ukraine.
95. Sep 22 to 27, 2001: Kazakhstan and Apostolic Voyage in Armenia on the occasion of the 1700 years of Christianity in the Country.
96. May 22 to 26, 2002: Azerbaijan and Bulgaria.
97. Jul 23 to Aug 2, 2002: Toronto for the XVII World Youth Day, Guatemala City and Mexico City.
98. Aug 16 to 19, 2002: Poland in occasion of the Dedication of the Shrine of Divine Mercy in Kraków-Łagiewniki.
99. May 3 to 4, 2003: Spain.
100. Jun 5 to 9, 2003: Croazia.
101. Jun 22, 2003: Bosnia and Herzegovina.
102. Sep 11 to 14, 2003: Slovak Republic.
103. Jun 5 to 6, 2004: Bern in occasion of the National Meeting of Young Catholics of Switzerland.
104. Aug 14 to 15, 2004: Pilgrimage to Lourdes (France) in occasion of 150th anniversary of the promulgation of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception.
 
(And also John Paul II has done 334 Pastoral Visits within the Diocese of Rome).
 

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