Visitation

Visitation may refer to:

In history:

• Heraldic visitation, a tour of inspection by a herald (or other officer-of-arms) to regulate and register coats of arms, and to record pedigrees

In law:

• Contact (law) or visitation (United States), the right of a non-custodial parent to visit with their children
• Visitation, an inspection or inquiry by an archbishop or bishop, or by a commissary or archdeacon on his behalf (English ecclesiastical law)
• Visitation, an inquiry into the affairs of a university or other charitable institution, by the founder or a person appointed in accordance with the terms of the foundation (English law)

In popular culture:

• Visitation (Joe McPhee album), a 1985 album by Joe McPhee
• Visitation (Jonah Sharp and Bill Laswell album), a 1994 album by Jonah Sharp and Bill Laswell
• The Visitation (book), a 1999 contemporary Christian novel by Frank Peretti
• The Visitation (Doctor Who), a 1982 serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who
• The Visitation (film), a 2006 film based upon the above book

In religion:

• Visitation (Christianity), a Christian liturgical feast day commemorating the visit of the Blessed Virgin Mary to St. Elizabeth
• Canonical visitation, an inspection made by a clergyman authorised under (Catholic) canon law
• Funeral visitation, a funeral custom where a mourner visits the deceased person's family and views the body lying in the casket, either at a funeral home or church
• Tablet of Visitation, (or Ziyarat) the specific prayers used in Islam and the Bahá'í Faith while visiting the shrines of its founders, saints or martyrs
• Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary

Other:

• Supernatural Visitation, an experience of presence or communication between the recently deceased and their spouse or progeny