List of meetings between the Pope and the President of the United States

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This is the list of meetings between the Pope and the President of the United States. Meetings have been held at the Vatican and within the United States by six Popes and twelve Presidents since 1919.

The meetings

Date Country City President of the United States Pope Notes
January 4, 1919   Vatican[1] Rome Woodrow Wilson Pope Benedict XV First meeting of an incumbent President of the United States and a reigning Pope.
December 6, 1959   Vatican[2] Rome Dwight D. Eisenhower Pope John XXIII
July 2, 1963   Vatican[3] Rome John F. Kennedy Pope Paul VI Only meeting of a Roman Catholic U.S. President and a reigning Pope.
October 4, 1965  United States New York City[4][5] Lyndon B. Johnson Pope Paul VI First visit to the United States by a reigning Pope.[6]
December 23, 1967   Vatican[7] Rome Lyndon B. Johnson Pope Paul VI
March 2, 1969   Vatican[8] Rome Richard Nixon Pope Paul VI
September 29, 1970   Vatican[8] Rome Richard Nixon Pope Paul VI
June 3, 1975   Vatican[9] Rome Gerald Ford Pope Paul VI
October 6, 1979  United States Washington, D.C.[10] Jimmy Carter Pope John Paul II First visit to the White House by a reigning Pope.
June 21, 1980   Vatican[11] Rome Jimmy Carter Pope John Paul II
June 7, 1982   Vatican[12] Rome Ronald Reagan Pope John Paul II
May 2, 1984  United States Fairbanks, Alaska[10] Ronald Reagan Pope John Paul II President Reagan was returning to the United States from a visit to China while Pope John Paul II was making a stopover on his way to South Korea, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Thailand.[13]
June 6, 1987   Vatican[12] Rome Ronald Reagan Pope John Paul II
September 10, 1987  United States Miami, Florida[10] Ronald Reagan Pope John Paul II
May 27, 1989   Vatican[14] Rome George H. W. Bush Pope John Paul II
November 8, 1991   Vatican[14] Rome George H. W. Bush Pope John Paul II
August 12, 1993  United States Denver, Colorado[10] Bill Clinton Pope John Paul II Both leaders addressed thousands of young students at World Youth Day.[15]
June 2, 1994   Vatican[16] Rome Bill Clinton Pope John Paul II
October 4, 1995  United States Newark, New Jersey[10] Bill Clinton Pope John Paul II
January 26, 1999  United States St. Louis, Missouri[10] Bill Clinton Pope John Paul II
July 23, 2001  Holy See Castel Gandolfo[17] George W. Bush Pope John Paul II
May 28, 2002   Vatican[17] Rome George W. Bush Pope John Paul II
June 4, 2004   Vatican[17] Rome George W. Bush Pope John Paul II President Bush presented Pope John Paul II with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.[18]
June 9, 2007   Vatican[17] Rome George W. Bush Pope Benedict XVI
April 15–16, 2008  United States Washington, D.C.[19][20] George W. Bush Pope Benedict XVI See Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States
June 13, 2008   Vatican[17] Rome George W. Bush Pope Benedict XVI
July 10, 2009   Vatican[21][22][23][24] Rome Barack Obama Pope Benedict XVI
March 27, 2014   Vatican[25][26] Rome Barack Obama Pope Francis
September 22-23, 2015  United States Washington, D.C.[27][28] Barack Obama Pope Francis See Pope Francis' visit to the United States
President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan with Pope John Paul II, June 7, 1982
Pope Benedict XVI celebrates his 81st birthday with President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush, April 16, 2008
Pope Francis and President Barack Obama at the White House in 2015.

Other meetings

Additionally, Eugenio Pacelli (the future Pope Pius XII) visited the United States for two weeks in October–November 1936 and met President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Hyde Park, New York on November 5, 1936.[29]

President George W. Bush attended the Funeral of Pope John Paul II on April 8, 2005 and briefly met Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, who had led the Mass of Requiem.[30] Bush was the first incumbent U.S. president to attend a papal funeral.[31]

Former Presidents meeting the Pope

After leaving office, former Presidents Martin Van Buren and Millard Fillmore met separately with Pope Pius IX in Rome in 1855. Pius IX also met Franklin Pierce in November 1857. In 1878, Ulysses S. Grant met Pope Leo XIII in the Vatican.[32]

In April 1910, Theodore Roosevelt sought an audience with Pope Pius X. The Pope agreed to see him, provided Roosevelt would not call on some Methodist missionaries in Rome. Roosevelt had no intention of meeting the missionaries, but he declined to submit to Pius X's conditions and the interview did not take place. Theodore Roosevelt called the entire papal episode, "An elegant row."[33]

First Ladies meeting the Pope

There is at least one account of a sitting First Lady meeting the Pope independent of her husband. On March 11, 1962, en route to visiting India and Pakistan, Jacqueline Kennedy met with Pope John XXIII.[34]

See also

References

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