1999

• Message for the 32nd World Day of Peace (January 1, 1999)

• Mass on the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God (January 1, 1999)

• Address to the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See (January 11, 1999)

• Address to the Tribunal of the Roman Rota (January 21, 1999)

• Message for the 33rd World Communications Day (January 24, 1999)

• Pastoral Visit to Ciudad de México for the Closing of the Special Assembly for America of the Synod of Bishops (22-28 January 1999)

• Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in America (January 22, 1999)

• Apostolic Letter Inter Munera Academiarum (January 28, 1999)

• Message for the 7th World Day of the Sick (February 11, 1999)

• Message for the World Migration Day 1999

• Homily - Ash Wednesday (February 17, 1999)

• Message for Lent 1999

• Words at the end of the Lenten Spiritual Exercises (February 27, 1999)

• Address to the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications (March 4, 1999)

• Message for the 14th World Youth Day, 1999

• Letter to Priests for Holy Thursday (March 14, 1999)

• Chrism Mass (April 1, 1999)

• Mass of the LordÂ’s Supper (April 1, 1999)

• Address at the end of the Way of the Cross (April 2, 1999)

• Urbi et Orbi Message (April 4, 1999)

• Letter to Artists (April 4, 1999)

• Address to the Secretary General of the United Nations Organization (April 27, 1999)

• Beatification of Father Pio of Pietrelcina in St. PeterÂ’s Square (May 2, 1999)

• Pastoral Visit to Romania (7-9 May 1999)

• Pope John Paul II and Patriarch Teoctist sign a joint declaration for peace in Kosovo (May 8, 1999)

• The document The Gift of Authority , produced by the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, ARCIC (May 12, 1999)

• Vigil of Pentecost (May 22, 1999)

• Message for the World Day for Vocations (April 25, 1999)

• Solemnity of Corpus Christi and Day of Prayer for Peace in the Balkans (June 3, 1999)

• Pastoral Visit to Poland (5-17 June 1999)

• Letter concerning Pilgrimage to the Places Linked with the History of Salvation (June 29, 1999)

• Message to H.H. Karekin I , Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of all the Armenians, severely ill. The Patriarch died that same afternoon (June 29, 1999)

• Mass on the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven (August 15, 1999)

• Address to the Director General of U.N.E.S.C.O (September 8, 1999)

• John Paul II sends a Message to the Bishops of East Timor in which he expresses his closeness to those experiencing the horror of the civil war (September 9, 1999)

• Pastoral Visit to Slovenia (September 19, 1999)

• Inauguration following the restoration of the facade of St. PeterÂ’s Basilica (September 30, 1999)

• Motu Proprio Spes aedificandi (October 1, 1999)

• Letter to the Elderly (October 1, 1999)

• Official visit of the President of Italy, Carlo Azeglio Campi (October 19, 1999)

• Message for the World Day for Missions (October 24, 1999)

• The Pope expresses his thanks for the signing today in Augsburg, Germany, by the Catholic Church and the World Lutheran Federation of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (October 31, 1999)

• Pastoral Visit to New Delhi for the Conclusion of the Special Assembly for Asia of the Synod of Bishops and in Georgia (November 5-9, 1999)

• Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in Asia (November 6, 1999)

• Inauguration of the recently finished mosaic work and restoration of Redemptoris Mater Chapel, which is located inside the Vatican's Apostolic Palace (November 14, 1999)

• Address to the 30th Conference of FAO (November 18, 1999)

• Prayer on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (December 8, 1999)

• Conclusion of the restoration works of the Sistine Chapel (December 11, 1999)

• Address to the Cardinals and the members of the Roman Curia for Christmas (December 21, 1999)

• The start of the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000 : Opening of the Holy Door of St. PeterÂ’s Basilica - Homily (December 24, 1999)

• Urbi et Orbi Message (December 25, 1999)

• Opening of the Holy Door of the Basilica of St. John Lateran. Homily (December 25, 1999)

• Te Deum (December 31, 1999)

• World-wide television coverage of the Holy FatherÂ’s message and Urbi et Orbi blessing for the passage into the Year 2000 (December 31, 1999)