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Pope Leo XIV to travel 19,000 miles on 14 flights during trip to Peru, Argentina, and Uruguay
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In Short: Pope Leo XIV will travel over 19,000 miles on 14 flights during a 12-day trip to Uruguay, Argentina, and Peru, starting Nov. 6.
Pope Leo XIV will embark on a 12-day tour of Latin America, beginning with a 14-hour flight from Rome to Montevideo, Uruguay, on Nov. 6.
The Vatican has released the full schedule for the trip, which includes visits to Uruguay, Argentina, and Peru.
Pope Leo XIV will be the first pope to visit Uruguay since St. John Paul II in 1988.
According to the schedule, Pope Leo XIV will meet with President Yamandú Orsi of Uruguay and hold a courtesy visit at the Edificio José Artigas.
The trip will include stops in Paysandú, where he will celebrate Mass, and Florida, home to the National Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Thirty-Three.
In Argentina, the Pope will visit the Little Cottolengo Don Orione and hold a vigil with young people.
The final leg of the tour will take place in Peru, where Pope Leo XIV will celebrate nine public Masses, participate in three prayer vigils, and meet with the bishops’ conferences and synodal teams.
The trip will culminate with a return to Chiclayo, Peru, where Pope Leo XIV served as bishop from 2015 to 2023.
The Pope’s journey will cover over 19,000 miles, making it his longest international trip to date.
Pope Leo XIV’s motto for the trip is drawn from the angel’s announcement to the shepherds of Bethlehem in the Gospel of Luke, 'I bring you news of great joy.
What's confirmed
- The Vatican has published the schedule for Pope Leo XIV’s apostolic journey to Latin America, where he will visit Uruguay, Argentina, and Peru from Nov. 6–17.
- According to the announcement, the pope will begin his journey by departing Rome on Nov. 6 at 7:50 a.m.
- From there, he will travel to Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay.
- Pope Leo XIV is set to be the first pope to visit Uruguay since St.
- At 6:15 p.m., the pope will pay a courtesy visit to the president of Uruguay, Yamandú Orsi, at his residence at the Edificio José Artigas.
What's still developing
- The logo shows Pope Leo surrounded by Peruvian saints, in front of a map of Peru enclosed in a large red heart.
- In between, the pope will travel to a new de s tination nearly every day, including a 2,200-mile flight from Buenos Aires to Lima and a military helicopter flight Nov.
- By comparison, Pope Leo traveled 11,000 miles over 11 days during his trip to Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea earlier this year.
- Full details of Pope Leo XIV’s mammoth voyage to South America have been released by the Vatican, showing the Pontiff is due to take 14 flights and travel over 19,000 miles during the course of the 12 days.
- Though slow in some areas of his pontificate, Leo appears to have begun his reign with a keen desire to travel as much as possible, and the upcoming 12-day trip to South America will be a test of stamina if nothing else.
- Only two days are without flights in the entire trip, with Leo’s schedule involving numerous national plane journeys to reach different corners of the Church.
- (Find the Catholic Herald’s full preview and background of the trip here ) Each country is treated as a distinct stage, with the Vatican publishing separate logos and mottos for Uruguay, Argentina and Peru.
- Departing from Rome early in the morning on November 6, Leo will make the fourteen-and-a-half-hour flight to Uruguay’s capital city of Montevideo.
- The Pope will meet privately with President Yamandú Orsi before presiding over his first liturgical ceremony – Vespers in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and Saints Philip and James.
- On November 7 he will fly to Paysandú to celebrate Mass, before then returning to Montevideo for three events: meeting with Catholic parishioners, addressing the Catholic University of Uruguay and an evening prayer vigil.
- The anticipation surrounding this trip is considerable, as it represents a long-awaited reunion with church communities that have not received a direct visit from a pope for decades.
- The first leg of this intense continental tour will center on Uruguay, where the Holy Father will stay from November 6 to 8.