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VISIT OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS
TO LESVOS (GREECE)

(16 APRIL 2016) 

 

Live video transmission by CTV
(Vatican Television Center)  

Live CTV

 

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]
 
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.
 
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]
 
12:40 Signing of the joint declaration
[Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]
 
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
[Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]

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.

 
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
 
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]
 
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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