APOSTOLIC JOURNEY OF HIS HOLINESS FRANCIS
TO CYPRUS AND GREECE
2-6 DECEMBER 2021
Thursday, 2 December 2021
ROME - LARNACA - NICOSIA
11:00 | Departure by airplane from Rome/Fiumicino International Airport for Larnaca |
Greeting to journalists on the flight to Cyprus | |
15:00 | Arrival at Larnaca International Airport |
15:00 | OFFICIAL WELCOME at Larnaca International Airport |
16:00 | MEETING WITH PRIESTS, CONSACRATED PERSONS, DEACONS, CATECHISTS, ECCLESIAL ASSOCIATIONS AND MOVEMENTS OF CYPRUS at the Maronite Cathedral of Our Lady of Grace in Nicosia |
17:15 | WELCOME CEREMONY at the Presidential Palace in Nicosia |
17:30 | COURTESY VISIT TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC in the private office at the Presidential Palace in Nicosia |
18:00 | MEETING WITH AUTHORITIES, CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS in the “Ceremonial Hall” of the Presidential Palace in Nicosia |
Friday, 3 December 2021
NICOSIA
8:30 | COURTESY VISIT TO HIS BEATITUDE CHRYSOSTOMOS II, ORTHODOX ARCHBISHOP OF CYPRUS at the Orthodox Archbishopric of Cyprus in Nicosia |
9:00 | MEETING WITH THE HOLY SYNOD at the Orthodox Cathedral in Nicosia |
10:00 | HOLY MASS at the “GSP Stadium” in Nicosia |
16:00 | ECUMENICAL PRAYER WITH MIGRANTS at the Parish Church of the Holy Cross in Nicosia |
Saturday, 4 December 2021
NICOSIA - LARNACA - ATHENS
9:10 | FAREWELL CEREMONY at Larnaca International Airport |
9:30 | Departure by airplane for Athens |
11:10 | Arrival at Athens International Airport |
11:10 | OFFICIAL WELCOME at Athens International Airport |
12:00 | WELCOME CEREMONY at the Presidential Palace in Athens |
12:15 | COURTESY VISIT TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC in the private office at the Presidential Palace in Athens |
12:30 | MEETING WITH THE PRIME MINISTER at the Presidential Palace in Athens |
12:45 | MEETING WITH AUTHORITIES, CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS at the Presidential Palace in Athens |
16:00 | COURTESY VISIT TO HIS BEATITUDE HIERONYMOS II, ARCHBISHOP OF ATHENS AND ALL GREECE at the Orthodox Archbishopric of Greece in Athens |
16:30 | MEETING OF HIS BEATITUDE HIERONYMOS II AND HIS HOLINESS FRANCIS WITH THE RESPECTIVE ENTOURAGES in the “Throne Room” of the Orthodox Archbishopric of Greece in Athens |
17:15 | MEETING WITH BISHOPS, PRIESTS, RELIGIOUS, CONSECRATED PERSONS, SEMINARIANS, CATECHISTS at the Cathedral of Saint Dionysius in Athens |
18:45 | PRIVATE MEETING WITH THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS at the Apostolic Nunciature in Athens |
Sunday, 5 December 2021
ATHENS - MYTILENE (LESVOS) - ATHENS
9:15 | Departure by airplane for Mytilene |
10:10 | Arrival at Mytilene Airport |
10:45 | VISIT TO THE REFUGEES at "Reception and Identification Centre" in Mytilene |
12:15 | Departure by airplane for Athens |
13:10 | Arrival at Athens International Airport |
16:45 | HOLY MASS at “Megaron Concert Hall” in Athens |
19:00 | COURTESY VISIT OF HIS BEATITUDE HIERONYMOS II TO THE HOLY FATHER at the Apostolic Nunciature in Athens |
Monday, 6 December 2021
ATHENS - ROME
8:15 | VISIT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE PARLIAMENT at the Apostolic Nunciature in Athens |
9:45 | MEETING WITH YOUNG PEOPLE at the Saint Dionysius School of the Ursuline Sisters in Maroussi, Athens |
11:15 | FAREWELL CEREMONY at Athens International Airport |
11:30 | Departure by airplane for Rome |
Press Conference on the return flight to Rome | |
12:35 | Arrival at Rome/Ciampino International Airport |
Time zones | |
Rome | +1h UTC |
Larnaca | +2h UTC |
Athens | +2h UTC |
Lesvos | +2h UTC |
Bulletin of the Holy See Press Office, 13 November 2021
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