1979
Dominican Republic, Mexico, Jan. 25-Feb. 1 with a stopover in the Bahamas.
Poland, June 2-10
Ireland and the United States, Sept. 29-Oct. 7. The U.S. leg of the trip began Oct. 1.
Turkey, Nov. 28-30.

1980
Africa, May 2-12. The pope visited Zaire, Congo, Kenya, Ghana, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) and the Ivory Coast.
France, May 30-June 2.
Brazil, June 30-July 12.
West Germany, Nov. 15-19.

1981
The Far East, Feb. 16-27. Philippines, Guam and Japan with stopovers of several hours in Pakistan and Anchorage, Alaska.

*** May 13th, 1981 attempted assasination

1982
Africa, Feb. 12-19. The pope visited Nigeria, Benin, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.
Portugal, May 12-15.
Great Britain, May 28-June 2.
Argentina, June 11-12 with a stopover of several hours in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Switzerland, June 15.
San Marino, Aug. 29.
Spain, Oct. 31-Nov. 9.

1983
Central America (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras) and Haiti, March 2-10 with a stopover in Lisbon, Portugal.
Poland, June 16-23.
Lourdes, France, Aug. 14-15.
Austria, Sept. 10-13.

1984
South Korea, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Thailand, May 2-12, with a stopover of several hours in Fairbanks, AK.
Switzerland, June 12-17.
Canada, Sept. 9-20.
Spain, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, Oct. 10-12.

1985
Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad & Tobago, Jan 26-Feb 6.
Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, May 11-21.
Togo, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Zaire, Kenya and Morocco, Aug. 8-19.
Liechtenstein, Sept. 8.

1986
India, Feb. 1-10.
Colombia, July 1-7, with a stopover of several hours in St. Lucia.
France, Oct. 4-7.
Australia, New Zealand, Bangladesh, Fiji, Singapore and Seychelles, Nov. 19-Dec. 1.

1987
Uruguay, Chile and Argentina, March 31-April 13.
West Germany, April 30-May 4.
Poland, June 8-14.
United States and Canada, Sept. 10-20.

1988
Uruguay, Bolivia, Peru and Paraguay, May 7-18.
Austria, June 23-27.
Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Mozambique, with a detour through South Africa, Sept. 10-19.
France, Oct. 8-11.

1989
Madagascar, Reunion, Zambia and Malawi, April 28-May 6.
Norway, Iceland, Finland, Denmark and Sweden, June 1-10.
Spain, Aug. 19-21. [4th World Youth Day - Santiago de Compostela (first held outside Rome, where every other WYD is held)]
South Korea, Indonesia, East Timor and Mauritius, Oct. 6-16.

1990
Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mali & Burkina Faso, Jan 25 - Feb 1
Czechoslovakia, April 21-22.
Mexico and Curacao, May 6-13
Malta, May 25-27.
Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and Ivory Coast, Sept. 1-10.

1991
Portugal, May 10-13.
Poland, June 1-9.
Poland and Hungary, Aug. 13-20. [6th World Youth Day - Czestochowa]
Brazil, Oct. 12-20.

1992
Senegal, Gambia and Guinea, Feb. 19-26.
Angola and Sao Tome and Principe, June 4-10.
Dominican Republic, Oct. 9-14.

1993
Benin, Uganda and Sudan, Feb. 3-10.
Albania, April 25.
Spain, June 12-17.
Jamaica, Mexico and Denver, Aug. 9-16. [8th World Youth Day - Denver]
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, Sept. 4-10.

1994
Croatia, Sept. 10-11.

1995
Philippines, Australia, Papua New Guinea & Sri Lanka, Jan 12-21. [10th World Youth Day - Manila]
Czech Republic, May 20-22.
Belgium, June 3-4.
Slovakia, June 30-July 3.
Cameroon, South Africa, Kenya, Sept. 14-20.
United States, Oct. 4-8.

1996
Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Venezuela, Feb 5-11.
Tunisia, April 14.
Slovenia, May 17-19.
Germany, June 21-23.
Hungary, Sept. 6-7.
France, Sept. 19-22.

1997
Bosnia-Hercegovina, April 12-13.
Czech Republic, April 25-27.
Lebanon, May 10-11.
Poland, May 31-June 10.
France, August 21-24 [12th World Youth Day].
Brazil, October 1-5.

1998
Cuba, January 21-25.
Nigeria, March 21-23.
Austria, June 19-21.
Croatia, October 2-4.

Canonizations:

1982
Crispin of Viterbo (1668-1750)
Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941)
Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620-1700)
Jeanne Delanoue (1666-1736)

1983
Leopold Mandic (1866-1942).

1984
Paola Frassinetti (1809-1892)
103 Korean Martyrs (d. between 1839-1867)
Miguel Febres Cordero (1854-1910).

1986
Francis Anthony Fasani (1681-1742)
Giuseppe Maria Tomasi (1649-1713).

1987
Giuseppe Moscati (d. 1927)
Lawrence (Lorenzo) Ruiz and Fifteen Companions, Martyrs of Japan (d. 1630s).

1988
Eustochia Calafato (1434-1485)
117 Martyrs of Vietnam (96 Vietnamese, 11 Spanish, 10 French
included 8 bishops, 50 priests, I seminarian, 58 lay persons)
Roque Gonzalez (1576-1628), Alfonso Rodriguez (1598-1628) and Juan de Castillo (1596-1628), Jesuit martyrs of Paraguay
Rose Philippine Duchesne (1796-1852)
Simon de Rojas (1552-1624)
Magdalen of Canossa (1774- Maria Rosa Molas y Vollve (d. 1876).

1989
Clelia Barbieri (1847-1870)
Gaspar Bertoni (1777-1853)
Richard Pampuri, religious (1897-1930)
Agnes of Bohemia (1211-1282)
Albert Chmielowski (1845-1916)
Mutien-Marie Wiaux (1841-1917).

1990
Marguerite D'Youville (1701-1777).

1991
Raphael (Jozef) Kalinowski (1835-1907).

1992
Claude La Colombiere (1641-1682)
Ezequiel Moreno y Diaz (1848-1905).

1993
Marie of St. Ignatius (Claudine Thevenet) (1774-1837)
Teresa "de los Andes" (Juana Fernandez Solar) (1900-20)
Enrique de Osso y Cervello (1840-96).

1995
Jan Sarkander (1576-1620), Zdislava of Lemberk (d. 1252)
Marek Krizin (1588-1619), Stefan Pongracz (1582-1619), Melichar Grodziecky (1584-1619), martyrs of Kosice
Eugene de Mazenod (1782-1861).

1996
Jean-Gabriel Perboyre (1802-40), Juan Grande Roman (1546-1600) and Bro. Egidio Maria of St. Joseph (1729-1812).

1997
Hedwig (1371-1399)
John Dukla, O.F.M. (d. 1484).

1998
Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) (scheduled 11 October).

Cardinals Created:

As of the Consistory of February 1998, there were 165 living cardinals, of whom 122 (under 80 years old) were eligible to vote in a papal conclave. Nearly 87 percent of these cardinals have been appointed by John Paul II.

The College of Cardinals now includes roughly one-half European members; the remainder are roughly 20 percent from Latin America, 10 percent from North America, 10 percent from Africa, 11 percent from Asia, and 3 percent from Oceania.

The following were elevated at the consistory of 21 February 1998
Roman Curia or the Vatican diplomatic service:
Archbishop Jorge Arturo Medina Estevez, the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship;
Archbishop Dario Castrillon Hoyos, the Prefect of the Congregation for the
Clergy;
Archbishop Alberto Bovone, the Pro-prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints;
Archbishop Lorenzo Antonetti, the pro-president of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See;
Archbishop Francis Stafford, the president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity;
Archbishop Cheli; - Archbishop Francesco Colasuonno, the apostolic nuncio to Italy;
Bishop Manduzzi;

Diocesan archbishops:
Dionigi Tettamanzi of Genoa, Italy;
Salvatore de Giorgi of Palermo, Italy;
Antonio Rouco Varela of Madrid, Spain;
Jean Balland of Lyon, France;
Christoph Schoenborn of Vienna, Austria;
Serafim Fernandez de Araujo of Bel Horizonte, Brazil;
Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico City, Mexico;
Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic of Toronto, Canada;
Francis George of Chicago, USA;
Polycarp Pengo of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania;
Adam Kozlowiecki, archbishop emeritus of Lusaka, Zambia;
Paul Shan Kuo-Shi of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Encyclicals:

1979:
Redemptor hominis (On redemption and dignity of the human race), Mar. 4

1980:
Dives in misericordia (On the mercy of God), Nov. 30.)

1981:
Laborem exercens (On human work), Sept. 14.

1985:
Slavorum Apostoli (Commemorating Sts. Cyril and Methodius, on the eleventh centenary of the death of St. Methodius), June 2.

1986:
Dominion et Vivificantem (On the Holy Spirit in the life of the Church and the world), May 18.

1987:
Redemptoris Mater (On the role of Mary in the mystery of Christ and her active and exemplary presence in the life of the Church), Mar. 25.
Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (On social concerns, on the twentieth anniversary of Populorum progressio), Dec. 30.

1991:
Redemptoris missio (on the permanent validity of the Church's missionary mandate), Jan. 22.
Centesimus annus (Commemorating the centenary of Rerum novarum and addressing the social question in a contemporary Perspective), May 1.

1993:
Veritatis Splendor (Regarding fundamental questions on the Church's moral teaching), Aug. 6.

1995:
Evangelium Vitae (On the value and inviolability of human life), Mar. 25.
Ut Unum Sint (On commitment to ecumenism), May 25.

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