Statistics
on the Pontificate of John Paul II

[Updated: 28.12.2005]

Giovanni Paolo II
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Apostolic Voyages
Principal documents
Encyclical Letters of John Paul II
Social Encyclicals of the most recent Pontificates

Beatification and Canonizazion Ceremonies
Consistories
Episcopal Ordinations conferred by John Paul II
Baptisms by John Paul II
Synod of Bishops
Audiences and meetings with political figures
General Audiences
World Days
World Days of Fasting for Peace asked by John Paul II
Pontificate of John Paul II - Dedicated Years
Some particular events
Diplomatic Relations of the Holy See
The duration of the Pontificate

Apostolic Voyages

[Updated: 11.01.2005]

		Totale
Visits outside Italy (in 129 different nations) [Italian]		104
Visits in Italy outside Rome and Castelgandolfo [Italian]		146
Visits to the Diocese and to the City of Rome and to the Municipality of Castelgandolfo [Italian]		748
	of which to the Parishes of Rome (on a total of 333 parishes) *() ()	301
Visits to the Bodies of the Holy See and of Vatican City State [Italian]		54

Cumulative, global and specified statistics concerning the Apostolic Voyages [English, Italian]

(*) "(...) Dear brothers and sisters of the Parish of St María Josefa of the Heart of Jesus! The joy of being with you today is particularly strong. It is the delight of being able to visit the 300th parish community of the beloved Church of Rome. From the beginning of my Pontificate, I have made a priority of exercising the ministry of Bishop of Rome, even by visiting the parish communities of the Diocese.(...)" [Homily of the Holy Father during Holy Mass on the occasion of the Pastoral Visit to the Parish of Santa Maria Josefa del Cuore di Gesù, in the East sectorof the Diocese of Roma, the 300th visit of John Paul II in the Parish of His Diocese - Sunday 16 December 2001].
(**) Since December 2002, the parishes of Rome meet the Holy Father in the Vatican. To date, 16 parishes have visited the Holy Father, bringing the total of Roman parishes meeting the Pope to 317.

Principal documents

[Updated: 25.02.2005]

Principal Documents	Total

Encyclicals	14
Apostolic Exhortations	14
Apostolic Constitutions	11
Apostolic Letters	45
Motu Proprio	31
Planned speeches during Apostolic Voyages (including those in Italy)	3.288

Other Documents

Letters
Messages
Speeches
Homilies
Angelus - Regina Coeli
Speeches Audiences

Ecyclical Letters of John Paul II

[Updated: 17.04.2003]

	*Title*	*Date of signature*	*Date of publication*
1	*Redemptor hominis* Jesus Christ, "the Redeemer of man"	04.03.1979	15.03.1979
2	Dives in misericordia It is "God, who is rich in mercy" whom Jesus Christ has revealed to us as Father	30.11.1980	02.12.1980
3	*Laborem exercens* On Human Work on the ninetieth yearsversary of Rerum novarum	14.09.1981	14.09.1981
4	*Slavorum Apostoli* The Apostles of the Slavs, Saints Cyril and Methodius, are remembered with the great work of evangelization after eleven centuries	02.06.1985	02.07.1985 [This is an Epistola Enciclica, not an Encyclical Letter]
5	*Dominum et vivificantem* On the Holy Spirit in the Life of the Church and the World	18.05.1986	30.05.1986
6	*Redemptoris Mater* On the Blessed Virgin Mary in the life of the Pilgrim Church	25.03.1987	25.03.1987
7	*Sollicitudo rei socialis* The social concern of the Church, directed towards an authentic development of man and society for, the twentieth yearsversary of "Populorum progressio"	30.12.1987	19.02.1988
8	*Redemptoris missio* On the permanent validity of the Church's missionary mandate	07.12.1990	22.01.1991
9	*Centesimus annus* On the Centenary of the promulgation of the Encyclical "Rerum novarum"	01.05.1991	02.05.1991
10	Veritatis splendor Jesus Christ, the true light that enlightens everyone	06.08.1993	05.10.1993
11	*Evangelium vitae* The Gospel of life is at the heart of Jesus' message	25.03.1995	30.03.1995
12	*Ut unum sint* The call for Christian unity	25.05.1995	30.05.1995
13	*Fides et ratio* Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth	14.10.1998	15.10.1998
14	*Ecclesia de Eucharistia* The Church draws her life from the Eucharist	17.04.2003	17.04.2003

Social Encyclicals of the most recent Pontificates

[Updated: 17.04.2003]

Title	Date of signature	Pontiff
RERUM NOVARUM on capital and labor	15 May 1891	LEO XIII
QUADRAGESIMO ANNO on Reconstruction of the Social Order, on the fortieth anniversary of Rerum novarum	15 May 1931	PIO XI
MATER ET MAGISTRA on Christianity and Social Progress	15 May 1961	JOHN XXIII
PACEM IN TERRIS on establishing universal peace in truth, justice, charity and liberty	11 April 1963	JOHN XXIII
POPULORUM PROGRESSIO on the development of peoples	26 March 1967	PAUL VI
OCTOGESIMA ADVENIENS Apstolic Letter on occasion of the eightieth anniversary of Rerum novarum	14 May 1971	PAUL VI
LABOREM EXCERCENS on Human Work on the ninetieth anniversary of Rerum novarum	14 September 1981	JOHN PAUL II
SOLLICITUDO REI SOCIALIS on the twentieth anniversary of Populorum progressio	30 December 1987	JOHN PAUL II
CENTESIMUS ANNUS on the hundredth anniversary of Rerum novarum	1 May 1991	JOHN PAUL II

Beatification and Canonization Ceremonies

[Updated: 05.01.2005]

Beatifications and Canonizations in the Pontificate of John Paul II
	Ceremonies	Martyrs	Confessors	Total
Beatification Ceremonies	147	1.032	306	1.338
Canonization Ceremonies	51	402	80	482
Statistics: Ceremonies in Rome - Ceremonies in Italia outside of Rome - Ceremonies outside of Italy during Apostolic Voyages [Italian]

Canonizations starting with the Pontificate of Clement VIII [On 22 January 1588, with the Apostolic Constitution Immensa aeterni, Pope Sixtus V created the Sacred Congregation of Rites to regulate divine worship and to deal with the causes of saints]
CLEMENT VIII	1592-1605		2
PAUL V	1605-1621		2
GREGORY XV	1621-1623		5
URBAN VIII	1623-1644		2
ALEXANDER VII	1655-1667		2
CLEMENT IX	1667-1669		2
CLEMENT X	1670-1676		5
ALEXANDER VIII	1689-1691		5
CLEMENT IX	1700-1721		4
BENEDICT XIII	1724-1730		10
CLEMENT XII	1730-1740		4
BENEDICT XIV	1740-1758		5
CLEMENT XIII	1758-1769		6
PIUS VII	1800-1823		5
GREGORY XVI	1831-1846		5
PIUS IX	1846-1878		52
LEO XIII	1878-1903		18
PIUS X	1903-1914		4
BENEDICT XV	1914-1922		3
PIUS XI	1922-1939		34
PIUS XII	1939-1958		33
JOHN XXIII	1958-1963		10
PAUL VI	1963-1978		84
SUB-TOTAL		302
JOHN PAUL II		482
Total number of canonizations from 1594 through 2004		784

Consistories

[Updated: 03.04.2005]

	Cardinals created	Number of Consistories
Consistories for creating Cardinals (Ordinary Consistories)	231	9
Plenary Assemblies of the College of Cardinals (Extraordinary Consistories)		6
Specific Statistics on Consistories [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish] Documentation on Consistories [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

Episcopal Ordinations
conferred by John Paul II

[Updated: 09.01.2003]

Number Ceremony	*Date*	*Site*	Number Ordained Bishops
1	06.01.1979	Vatican Basilica	1
2	27.05.1979	Vatican Basilica	26
3	15.09.1979	Sistine Chapel	1
4	12.11.1979	Sistine Chapel	1
5	06.01.1980	Vatican Basilica	3
6	04.05.1980	Kinshasa - Zaire (Africa)	8
7	06.01.1981	Vatican Basilica	11
8	12.04.1981	Sistine Chapel	1
9	06.01.1982	Vatican Basilica	9
10	06.03.1982	Vatican Basilica	1
11	06.01.1983	Vatican Basilica	14
12	01.11.1983	Sistine Chapel	1
13	06.01.1984	Vatican Basilica	9
14	06.01.1985	Vatican Basilica	7
15	14.09.1985	Cathedral of Albano (Italy)	1
16	06.01.1986	Vatican Basilica	7
17	16.10.1986	Vatican Basilica	1
18	06.01.1987	Vatican Basilica	10
19	17.03.1987	Vatican Basilica	1
20	05.09.1987	Vatican Basilica	3
21	07.11.1987	Vatican Basilica	1
22	06.01.1988	Vatican Basilica	10
23	04.10.1988	Vatican Basilica	1
24	06.01.1989	Vatican Basilica	13
25	20.10.1989	Vatican Basilica	4
26	06.01.1990	Vatican Basilica	12
27	05.04.1990	Vatican Basilica	4
28	06.01.1991	Vatican Basilica	13
29	06.01.1992	Vatican Basilica	11
30	26.04.1992	Vatican Basilica	7
31	17.11.1992	Vatican Basilica	1
32	06.01.1993	Vatican Basilica	11
33	25.04.1993	Scutari (Albania)	4
34	06.01.1994	Vatican Basilica	13
35	06.01.1995	Vatican Basilica	10
36	06.01.1996	Vatican Basilica	14
37	06.01.1997	Vatican Basilica	12
38	06.01.1998	Vatican Basilica	9
39	19.03.1998	Vatican Basilica	3
40	06.01.1999	Vatican Basilica	9
41	06.01.2000	Vatican Basilica	12
42	19.03.2001	Vatican Basilica	9
43	06.01.2002	Vatican Basilica	10
44	06.01.2003	Vatican Basilica	12
TOTAL ORDAINED BISHOPS			321

Baptisms by John Paul II

[Updated: 11.04.2004]

	*Date*	*Place*	*Number of baptized*
			Children*	Adults**	*Total*
1	14.04.1979	Easter Vigil, Vatican Basilica	-	11	11
2	11.08.1979	Castel Gandolfo	1	-	1
3	23.09.1979	Pauline Chapel	4	-	4
4	02.02.1980	Pauline Chapel	6	-	6
5	05.04.1980	Easter Vigil, Vatican Basilica	-	24	24
6	27.04.1980	Private Chapel	1	-	1
7	08.05.1980	Accra (Ghana)	-	10	10
8	11.01.1981	Pauline Chapel	9	-	9
9	26.02.1981	Nagasaki (Japan)	-	77	77
10	18.04.1981	Easter Vigil, Vatican Basilica	-	20	20
11	10.01.1982	Pauline Chapel	13	-	13
12	13.02.1982	Onitsha (Nigeria)	-	31	31
13	10.04.1982	Easter Vigil, Vatican Basilica	-	26	26
14	28.05.1982	London (Great Britain)	-	4	4
15	09.01.1983	Sistine Chapel	20	-	20
16	02.04.1983	Easter Vigil, Vatican Basilica	-	22	22
17	08.01.1984	Vatican Basilica	27	-	27
18	21.04.1984	Easter Vigil, Saint Peters Square	-	29	29
19	04.05.1984	Kwangju (Corea)	-	72	72
20	13.01.1985	Sistine Chapel	31	-	31
21	06.04.1985	Easter Vigil, Vatican Basilica	-	24	24
22	11.08.1985	Garoua (Camerun)	-	c. 100	c. 100
23	12.01.1986	Sistine Chapel	42	-	42
24	29.03.1986	Easter Vigil, Vatican Basilica	-	39	39
25	08.05.1986	Forlì (Italy)	7	-	7
26	21.06.1986	"Centro Italiano Solidarietà" (Italian Solidarity Center), Rome	5	-	5
27	11.01.1987	Hall of Blessings	49	-	49
28	18.04.1987	Easter Vigil, Vatican Basilica	-	35	35
29	10.01.1988	Hall of Blessings	42	-	42
30	02.04.1988	Easter Vigil, Vatican Basilica	-	27	27
31	08.01.1989	Hall of Blessings	43	-	43
32	25.03.1989	Easter Vigil, Vatican Basilica	-	15	15
33	21.05.1989	Nomadelfia (Italy)	1	-	1
34	07.10.1989	Seoul (Korea)	-	12	12
35	07.01.1990	Hall of Blessings	43	-	43
36	14.04.1990	Easter Vigil, Vatican Basilica	-	19	19
37	13.01.1991	Hall of Blessings	42	-	42
38	30.03.1991	Easter Vigil, Vatican Basilica	-	26	26
39	12.01.1992	Hall of Blessings	42	-	42
40	18.04.1992	Easter Vigil, Vatican Basilica	-	29	29
41	02.01.1993	Hall of Blessings	39	-	39
42	10.04.1993	Easter Vigil, Vatican Basilica	-	32	32
43	05.09.1993	Vilnius (Lituania)	-	10	10
44	09.01.1994	Vatican Basilica	41	-	41
45	02.04.1994	Easter Vigil, Vatican Basilica	-	27	27
46	08.01.1995	Sistine Chapel	19	-	19
47	15.04.1995	Easter Vigil, Vatican Basilica	-	12	12
48	07.01.1996	Sistine Chapel	20	-	20
49	17.02.1996	Private Chapel	1	-	1
50	06.04.1996	Easter Vigil, Vatican Basilica	-	10	10
51	12.01.1997	Sistine Chapel	19	-	19
52	29.03.1997	Easter Vigil, Vatican Basilica	-	10	10
53	07.07.1997	Private Chapel	1	-	1
54	23.08.1997	Paris (France)	-	10	10
55	11.01.1998	Sistine Chapel	19	-	19
56	11.04.1998	Easter Vigil, Vatican Basilica	-	9	9
57	10.01.1999	Sistine Chapel	19	-	19
58	03.04.1999	Easter Vigil, Vatican Basilica	-	8	8
59	09.01.2000	Sistine Chapel	18	-	18
60	22.04.2000	Easter Vigil, Vatican Basilica	-	8	8
61	07.01.2001	Sistine Chapel	18	-	18
62	14.04.2001	Easter Vigil, Vatican Basilica	-	6	6
63	13.01.2002	Sistine Chapel	20	-	20
64	30.03.2002	Easter Vigil, Vatican Basilica	2	7	9
65	12.01.2003	Sistine Chapel	22	-	22
66	19.04.2003	Easter Vigil, Vatican Basilica	-	7	7
67	10.04.2004	Easter Vigil, Vatican Basilica	1	6	7
	TOTAL:		687	814	1.501
* Newborns or babies, who receive only the sacrament of Baptism ** Children and Adults, who receive the sacraments of Baptism, Communion and Confirmation.

Synod of Bishops

[Updated: 16.10.2001]

	During Pontificate	Total
Ordinary General Assemblies	6	10
Extraordinary General Assemblies	1	2
Special Assemblies	7	7
Particular Synods (The Netherlands)	1	1
Total	15	20
Documentation Synod of Bishops [English, French, Italian, Spanish]

Audiences and Meetings with political figures

[Updated: 25.02.2005]

More than 1.600, of which:	Totale
Official visits with Heads of State	38
Other audiences and meetings with Heads of State	738
Audiences and meetings with Prime Ministers	246

General Audiences

[Updated: 28.12.2005]

1.164, with a presence of more than 17.665.800 faithful from every part of the world

Statistical data concerning the presence of the faithful in the Audiences of John Paul II [Italian]

Speeches [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

World Days

[Updated: 24.01.2005]

World Youth Day [English, French, Italian, Spanish]

World Day of the Sick [Italian]

World Day for Peace [Italian]

World Day for Migrants and Refugees [English, Italian]

World Meeting of the Family [English, Italian]

World Communications Day [Italian]

Other World Days [English, French, German, Italian, Portughese, Spanish]

World Days of Fasting for Peace
asked by John Paul II

[Updated: 05.05.2003]

Monday 27 October 1986	In Assisi, World Day of Prayer for Peace
Saturday 9 January 1993	In Assisi, on occasion of the special prayer meeting for peace in Europe and particularly in the Balkans (9-10 January)
Friday 21 January 1994	For peace in Bosnia
Friday 14 December 2001	For a stable peace, based on justice
Ash Wednesday 5 March 2003	For the cause of peace, above all in the Middle East

Pontificate of John Paul II
Dedicated Years

[Updated: 05.01.2005]

Holy Year of the Redemption	25 March 1983 - 22 April 1984
Marian Year	7 June 1987 - 15 August 1988
Year of the Family	26 December 1993 - 30 December 1994
1st Year of preparation for the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000, dedicated to Jesus Christ [faith]	1997
2nd Year of preparation for the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000, dedicated to the Holy Spirit [hope]	1998
3rd Year of preparation for the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000, dedicated to God the Father [charity]	1999
Great Jubilee of the Year 2000	24 December 1999 - 6 January 2001
Year of the Rosary	16 October 2002 - 31 October 2003
Year of the Eucharist	17 October 2004 - 29 October 2005

Some particular events

[Updated: 13.02.2005]

Christmas [Italiano]

Spiritual Exercises [Italiano]

Way of the Cross [Italiano]

Diplomatic Relations of the Holy See

[Updated: 10.01.2005]

Diplomatic Relations of the Holy See [Francese, Inglese, Italiano]

Length of the Pontificates

[Updated: 16.10.2004]

Name of Pontiff		Initial and Last Date of Pontificate	Lengt of Pontificate [in years]	Length of Pontificate [in days]

1	S. PETER	30 (?)-64 [o 67] (?) refers to the uncertainty of the date	34 [o 37] years of which, according to tradition, the beginning in Antiochia and the last 25 in Rome
2	B. PIUS IX	1846-1878 16.06.1846 (election) 21.06.1846 (coronation) 07.02.1878 (dead)	31 years, 7 months and 21 days (from the election) 31 years, 7 months e 16 days (from the coronation)	11.559 days (from the election) 11.554 days (from the coronation)
3	JOHN PAUL II	1978-2005 16.10.1978 (election) 22.10.1978 (solemn beginning) 02.04.2005 (dead)	26 years (from the election) 26 years, 5 months e 17 days (from the solemn beginning)	9.665 days (from the election) 9.659 days (from the solemn beginning)
3	JOHN PAUL II	[the "surpassing" of the Pontificate of Leo XIII was on 14 March 2004, considering the election date; 9 March 2004 refers to the solemn beginning of the Pontificate]
4	LEO XIII	1878-1903 20.02.1878 (election) 03.03.1878 (coronation) 20.07.1903 (dead)	25 years, 5 months (from the election) 25 years, 4 months e 17 days (from the coronation)	9.280 days (from the election) 9.269 days (from the coronation)
5	PIUS VI	1775-1799 15.02.1775 (election) 22.02.1775 (coronation) 29.08.1799 (dead)	24 years, 6 months e 14 days (from the election) 24 years, 6 months e 7 days (from the coronation)	8.961 days (from the election) 8.954 days (from the coronation)
6	ADRIAN I	772-795 01.02.772 (election) 09.02.772 (enthronization) 25.12.795 (dead)	23 years, 10 months e 24 days (from the election) 23 years, 10 months e 16 days (from the enthronization)	8.728 days (from the election) 8.720 days (from the enthronization)
7	PIUS VII	1800-1823 14.03.1800 (election) 21.03.1800 (coronation) 20.08.1823 (dead)	23 years, 5 months e 6 days (from the election) 23 years e 5 months (from the coronation)	8.559 days (from the election) 8.552 days (from the coronation)
8	ALEXANDER III	1159-1181 07.09.1159 (election) 20.09.1159 (coronation) 30.08.1181 (dead)	21 years, 11 months e 23 days (from the election) 21 years, 11 months e 10 days (from the coronation)	8.028 days (from the election) 8.015 days (from the coronation)
9	S. SILVESTER I	314-335 31.01.314 (election) 31.12.335 (dead)	21 years e 11 months (from the election)	8.004 days (from the election)
10	S. LEO I, Magnus	440-461 29.09.440 (election) 10.11.461 (dead)	21 years, 1 mese e 12 days (from the election)	7.712 days (from the election)

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