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VISIT OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS
TO LESVOS (GREECE)
(16 APRIL 2016)
Live video transmission by CTV
(Vatican Television Center)
Saturday, 16 April 2016
| 07:00 | Departure from Rome's Fiumicino airport for Mytilene Words of the Holy Father on the flight to Lesvos [English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish] |
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| 10:20 | Arrival at the international airport of Mytilene | |
| Welcoming ceremony The Holy Father will be welcomed by the Prime Minister; later by His Holiness Bartholomew, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, and by His Beatitude Ieronymos, Archbishop of Athens and of All Greece, and, soon after by H.E. Msgr. Fragkiskos Papamanolis, OFM Cap, President of the Greek Episcopal Conference. |
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| 10:35 | Private meeting with the Prime Minister (in the airport). | |
| 10:55 | Transfer by bus together with His Holiness Bartholomew and His Beatitude Ieronymos to the Mòria refugee camp . | |
| 11:15 | Arrival at the Mòria refugee camp. | |
| Visit to refugees | ||
| 12:25 | Address of Archbishop Ieronymos; of Patriarch Bartholomew and of Pope Francis from the podium in the courtyard of the refugee registration [Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish] |
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| 12:40 | Signing of the joint declaration [Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish] |
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| 12:45 | Luncheon of the three religious leaders with some refugees gathered in the container at the back of the podium | |
| 13:30 | Transfer by minibus to the harbour | |
| 1345 | Arrival at the Presidium of the Coast Guard | |
| Meeting with the citizens and with the Catholic community. A remembering of the victims of migration Address of the Holy Father At the end, the three religious leaders will each recite a short prayer for the victims of migration. Calling for a minute of silence, the three leaders will receive laurel wreaths from children, which will be launched into the sea. |
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| 14:15 | Transfer by minibus to the airport. | |
| 14:30 | At the airport: Private meeting with the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Private meeting with the Ecumenical Patriarch Private meeting with the Prime Minister |
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| 15:00 | Farewell ceremony | |
| 15:15 | Departure from the international airport of Mytilene for Roma. In-Flight Press Conference from Lesvos to Rome [English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish] |
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| 16:30 | Arrival at Ciampino Airport in Rome. |
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Time zones
Rome: +2h UTC
Mytilene: +3h UTC
Bollettino Sala Stampa, 14 aprile 2016
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