1979

• Message for the12th World Day of Peace (January 1, 1979)

• Mass on the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God (January 1,1979)

• Angelus (January 1, 1979)

• Message for the 16th World day for Vocations (1979)

• Address to the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See (January 12, 1979)

• Pastoral Visit to Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), Mexico for the Third General Conference of the Latin American Bishops and the Bahamas (25 January-1 February 1979)

• Mass on the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord (February 2, 1979)

• Address to the Tribunal of the Roman Rota (February 17, 1979)

• Message for Lent (February 27, 1979)

• Mass on Ash Wednesday (February 28, 1979)

• First Encyclical Letter Redemptor hominis (March 4, 1979)

• Address to the Pontifical Ecclesiastic Academy (March 17, 1979)

• Address to the members of the European Parliament (April 5, 1979)

• Mass for Palm Sunday (April 8, 1979)

• Letter to Bishops for Holy Thursday (April 9, 1979)

• Letter to Priests for Holy Thursday (April 9, 1979)

• Chrism Mass (April 12, 1979)

• Mass of the Lord’s Supper (April 12, 1979)

• Address at the end of the Way of the Cross at the Colosseum (April 13, 1979)

• Easter Vigil (April 14, 1979)

• Apostolic Constitution Sapientia Christiana (April 15, 1979) 

• Mass for the Beatification of Father Laval and Father Coll (April 29, 1979)

• Apostolic Letter Rutilans Agmen (May 8, 1979)

• Message for the 13th World Communications Day (May 23, 1979)

• Mass on the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord (May 24, 1979)

• Pastoral Visit to Poland (2-10 June 1979)

• Message for the World Day for Missions (June 14, 1979)

• Mass on the Solemnity of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (June 29, 1979)

• Consistory for the creation of 14 new Cardinals (June 30, 1979)

• Message to Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, Secretary of State (July 1, 1979)

• Mass on the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (August 15, 1979)

• Visit to Veneto (August 26, 1979)

• Visit to Loreto and Ancona (September 8, 1979)

• Pastoral Visit to Ireland, U.N. and United States of  America (29 September-8 October 1979)

• Address to the General Assembly of the United Nations, in New York (October 2, 1979)

• Mass for the Beatification of the Spanish priest Enrique de Ossó y Cervelló (October 14, 1979)

• Apostolic Exhortation Catechesi Tradendae (October 16, 1979)

• Mass for World Mission Day (October 20, 1979)

• Visit to the Shrine of Pompei and Naples (October 21, 1979)

• Address to the 20th Conference of FAO (November 12, 1979)

• Pastoral Visit to Turkey (28-30 November 1979)

• Mass in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major - Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception (December 8, 1979)

• Midnight Mass (December 24, 1979)

• Te Deum (December 31, 1979)