Apostolic Voyage in Azerbaijan and Bulgaria, 2002 

 

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

Presentation (Azerbaijan) [Italian]
Presentation (Bulgaria) [Italian]
Biographies of the new Blesseds

Encyclical Letter Slavorum Apostoli (June 2, 1985)
[English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish]

Apostolic Letter Egregiae Virtutis (December 31, 1980) [Italian] 

Photo Gallery

Azerbaijan

• Welcome Ceremony - International Airport, Baku (May 22, 2002)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish]

• Meeting with Religious Leaders and Political, Cultural and Arts Representatives, Presidential Palace, Baku (May 22, 2002)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish]

• Mass in the Sports Palace, Baku: Homily (May 23, 2002)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish]

Bulgaria

• Welcome Ceremony - St. Alexander Nevski Square, Sofia (May 23, 2002)
  [Bulgarian, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Courtesy visit to His Beatitude Patriarch Maxim and to the Holy Synod, Patriarchal Palace, Sofia (May 24, 2002)
  [Bulgarian, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Joint Statement of the Director of the Holy See Press Office and the Press Office of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria (May 24, 2002)
  [English]

• Meeting with representatives of the world of Culture, Science and Art, Palace of Culture, Sofia (May 24, 2002)
  [Bulgarian, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Pilgrimage to the Holy Monastery of Rila (May 25, 2002)
  [Bulgarian, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Visit to the Latin Co-Cathedral, Sofia (May 25, 2002)
  [Bulgarian, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Visit to the Byzantine-Slavonic Catholic Cathedral, Sofia (May 25, 2002)
  [Bulgarian, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Mass with Beatifications in the Central Square, Plovdiv: Homily (May 26, 2002)
  [Bulgarian, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Angelus in the Central Square, Plovdiv (May 26, 2002)
  [Bulgarian, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Meeting with Youth, Cathedral of Plovdiv (May 26, 2002)
  [Bulgarian, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Farewell Ceremony - Airport, Plovdiv (May 26, 2002)
  [Bulgarian, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]