Friday, October 31, 2025

CALENDAR OF ACTIVITIES OF POPE LEO XIV: OCTOBER 2025

 


Legend:
Red text: liturgical celebrations
Blue text: audiences and other commitments announced in advance

10.1 - Audience for Salvador Illa i Roca, President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, and entourage.
10 am: Wednesday General Audience
4 pm: Participation in the International Conference “Raising Hope for Climate Justice” for the Tenth Anniversary of Laudato Si' in the Centro Mariapoli Internazionale at Castel Gandolfo.

10.2 - 9.30am: Audience in the Consistory Hall for the participants in the General Chapter of the Daughters of St. Paul
Audience for Amy Pope, Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and entourage
Farewell audience for René Juan Mujica Cantelar, Ambassador of Cuba
11.15 am: Audience in the Consistory Hall for the representatives of the “Confederación Médica Latinoiberoamericano y del Caribe.”
11.45 am: Audience in the Clementine Hall for the participants in the meeting “Refugees & Migrants in Our Common Home.”

10.3 - Audience for Karin Keller-Sutter, President of the Swiss Confederation, with her husband.
10.15 am: Audience in the Clementine Hall for the participants in the Second International Congress on the Pastoral Care of the Elderly.
12.25 pm: Audience in the Clementine Hall for the Pontifical Swiss Guard Corps on the occasion of the swearing-in of the new recruits.
A Telegram was sent by the Holy Father to Guillaume, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, on the occasion of his accession.

10.4 - 10 amJubilee Audience
5 pm: The Holy Father participated in the swearing-in ceremony of 27 recruits to the Pontifical Swiss Guards in the Saint Damasus Courtyard (usually held on or near May 6 but was postponed due to the Papal Interregnum; it is also the first time since 1969 that a pope witnessed this ceremony); improvised speech.

10.5 - 10.30 amJubilee of the Missionary World and Jubilee of Migrants: Holy Mass at St. Peter's Square
12 nn: Angelus Domini
5 pm: Holy Mass at the Lourdes Grotto at the Vatican Gardens for the Vatican Gendarmerie

10.6 - Audience for Gitanas Nausėda, President of the Republic of Lithuania, with his wife.
Audience for Albert Ramdin, Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS).
Audience for Catherine Russell, Executive Director of UNICEF.
11 am: Audience in the Consistory Hall with members of the Knights of Columbus Board of Directors on the occasion of their Jubilee pilgrimage.
Audience for members of the Extraordinary Synod of the Patriarchal Church of Cilicia of the Armenians.
Apostolic Letter motu proprio Coniuncta Cura on the financial investment activities of the Holy See.

10.7 - One day stay at Villa Barberini in Castel Gandolfo, returning to Rome in the afternoon.
5 pm: Meeting in St. Peter's Square to the pilgrims from Croatia.
In the evening, meeting with about a hundred representatives and leaders of the Hispanic ministry in the United States; improvised speech; recitation of the Pater Noster and Ave Maria.
Message for the 40th World Youth Day

10.8 - 10 amWednesday General Audience

10.9 - 8 am: Audience in the Consistory Hall for the delegation of Union Leaders from Chicagoland led by Cardinal Blase Cupich, Metropolitan Archbishop of Chicago, USA.
9 am: Audience in the Clementine Hall for the participants in the 39th Conference of the MINDS International Association.
Audience for Gilliam Noemi Gómez Guifarro, the new ambassador of Honduras to the Holy See.
10.30 amJubilee of Consecrated Life: Holy Mass at St. Peter's Square.
Audience for the members of the Extraordinary Synod of the Patriarchal Church of Cilicia of the Armenians.
In the afternoon, the Holy Father visited the headquarters of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development; blessing of the sculpture "The Tree of Human Dignity."
Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi te on love for the poor.
Letter to the College of Bishops accompanying the dispatch of the Apostolic Exhortation “Dilexi te.”

10.10 - 11 am: Audience in the Hall of Popes for the delegation of the Aid to the Church in Need Foundation
12 nn: Audience in the Paul VI Hall for the participants in the Jubilee of Consecrated Life.
Message on the occasion of the opening of the Academic Year of the Pontifical Urbaniana University.

10.11 - Audience for Bruno Kahl, the new ambassador of Germany to the Holy See.
10 am: Audience in the Clementine Hall for Italian Hermits participating in the Jubilee of Consecrated Life.
Audience for Bernardo Arévalo de León, President of the Republic of Guatemala, and entourage.
12 nn: Meeting in St. Peter's Square with the pilgrims from the Diocese of Toscana.
4 pm: Meeting at the Palazzina Leone XIII for the employees of the Dicastery for Communication and their families
6 pmJubilee of Marian Spirituality: Prayer Vigil and Rosary for Peace at St. Peter's Square; the image of Our Lady of Fatima from Portugal was brought from the Church of Santa Maria in Transportina to St. Peter's Square, stopping at the spot where St. John Paul II was shot on May 13, 1981; upon arrival, the Holy Father offered a Golden Rose to the image; recitation of the Holy Rosary for Peace with text from Lumen Gentium on the anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council; Eucharistic Adoration and Benediction.

10.12 - 10.30 amJubilee of Marian Spirituality: Holy Mass at St. Peter's Square in the presence of Our Lady of Fatima.
12 nnAngelus Domini and Act of Entrustment to the Blessed Virgin Mary

10.13 - Audience for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil.
Audience for Gabriel Boric Font, President of the Republic of Chile, and entourage.
12 nn: Audience in the Clementine Hall for the participants in the study meeting on Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val.
Video Message for World Mission Sunday 2025.

10.14 - 11 am: Visit to the Palace of the President of Italy on the Quirinal.
Audience for Abdullah II, King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and entourage.

10.15 - 9 am: Audience in the room adjacent to the Paul VI Hall for the Augustinian Recollects of the Mexican Federation.
10 amWednesday General Audience

10.16 - Audience for Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, President of the Republic of Chad, and entourage.
10.35 am: Visit to the Rome headquarters of the World Food and Agriculture Fund (FAO) 
Message to the Networks of Indigenous Peoples and the Network of Theologians of Indigenous Theology on the occasion of the Jubilee Year (written on October 12).

10.17 - Audience for Letsie III, King of Lesotho, and entourage.
Audience for Yamandú Orsi, President of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, and entourage.
Audience for Mehriban Aliyeva, First Vice-President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and entourage.
11.30 am: Audience in the Clementine Hall for a group of Russian pilgrims for the Jubilee.
4 pmVisit to the Peace Training Ship "Med 25 Bel Espoir" at the Marina di Ostia; meeting with the 25 young people of different nationalities and religions aboard the ship; improvised speech.

10.18 - Audience for a group of Bishops of Ecuador
10 am: Audience in the Clementine Hall for 50 members of the "San Giovanni Paolo II" National Anti-Usury Council on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of its foundation.
11 am: Meeting in the Paul VI Hall with the Roma, Sinti and Camminanti on the occasion of their Jubilee; speech; dialogue with 4 young children; crowning an image of the Madonna and Child.
Message to Monsignor Bruno Feillet, Bishop of Séez (France), on the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Canonization of Sts. Louis Martin & Zelie Guerin Martin, the Parents of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus.

10.19 - 10.30 amCanonization of 7 Blesseds in St. Peter's Square
12 nnAngelus Domini

10.20 - Audience for the members of Ending Clergy Abuse.
Audience for Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, and entourage
11.15 am: Audience in the Consistory Hall for the Community of the Pontifical Portuguese College in Rome
Audience for Ignace Youssif III Younan, Patriarch of Antioch of the Syrians (Lebanon)
12 nn: Audience in the Paul VI Hall for the Pilgrims gathered for the Canonizations.

10.22 - 9.30 am: Audience in the small room of the Paul VI Hall for the delegation of the "Mons. Courtney Fraternity" (Burundi).
10 amWednesday General Audience
A telegram of condolence after the death of Cardinal Edoardo Menichelli was sent to Angelo Spina, Metropolitan Archbishop of Ancona-Osimo.

10.23 - 9.30am: Audience in the Paul VI Hall for the participants in the Jubilee of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.
Audience for King Charles III of England with Queen Camilla and entourage; at 12 nn, presiding over at the Ecumenical Prayer in the Sistine Chapel for the Cure of Creation together with Stephen Cottrell, Anglican Archbishop of York, in the Sistine Chapel; participation in the meeting on Environmental Sustainability at Sala Regia.
4.30 pm: Meeting in the Paul VI Hall for the participants in the World Meeting of Popular Movements.

10.24 - 8.30 am: Audience in the Clementine Hall for the Pilgrim from Estonia on the occasion of the Jubilee.
In the presence of the Holy Father, 6 decrees from the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints regarding martyrdom and heroic virtues were promulgated.
Audience for Gérard Larcher, President of the Senate of France.
11.30 am: Audience in the Clementine Hall for the teachers and students of the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences.
12 nn: Audience in the Synod Hall for the Major Superiors of the Society of Jesus.
5.45 pm: Meeting in the Paul VI Hall with the participants in the Jubilee of the Synodal Team of Participation Bodies

10.25 - Audience for Nawaf Abdallah Salim Salam, Prime Minister of Lebanon, and entourage.
10 amJubilee Audience

10.26 - 10.00 amJubilee of synodal teams and participatory bodies: Holy Mass in St. Peter's Basilica
12 nnAngelus Domini
5 pm: Holy Mass in St. Peter's Basilica during which the Pope ordained Bishop Fr. Mirosław Wachowski, new Apostolic Nuncio to Iraq

10.27 - Audience for Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary, with his wife.
Audience for His Holiness Mar Awa III, Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, and entourage.
Audience for the members of the Permanent Committee of the Episcopal Conference of Chile.
Audience for King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium, and entourage
Audience for Mirosław Wachowski, the newly consecrated Apostolic Nuncio in Iraq, with his family.
Audience for Magnus Brunner, European Commissioner for Home Affairs and Migration, and entourage.
5.30 pm:  Holy Mass in St. Peter's Basilica with the university students of the Pontifical Universities; before the Mass, the Pope signed the Apostolic Letter Disegnare nuove mappe di speranza.

10.28 - 4.30 pm: Participation at the International Meeting for Peace, promoted by the Community of Sant'Egidio taking place at the Colosseum.
6.30 pm: Participation in the commemoration of the Conciliar Declaration "Nostra Aetate" in Paul VI Hall, organized by the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue.
Apostolic Letter Disegnare nuove mappe di speranza on the Occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Conciliar Declaration Gravissimum Educationis

10.29 - 10 amWednesday General Audience; the Pope dedicated his catechesis to the Conciliar Declaration Nostra Aetate, on the occasion of its 60th anniversary; appeal for the victims of Hurricane Melissa.

10.30 - Audience for the delegation from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
Audience for Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, President of the Republic of Gabon, with his wife.
Audience for Ratu Naiqama Tawakecolati Lalabalavu, President of Fiji, with his wife.
11.15 am: Meeting in the Paul VI Hall with students participating in the Jubilee of the Educative World.

10.31 - 8.30 amAudience in the Clementine Hall for the members of the “Organización de Universidades Católicas de América Latina y el Caribe” (ODUCAL).
Audience for Zoran Milanović, President of the Republic of Croatia, with his wife.
11.15 am: Audience in the Hall of Popes for members of the “International Youth Advisory Body.”
11.45 am: Meeting in St. Peter's Square with the educators participating in the Jubilee of the Educative World.

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For previous months of the activities of Pope Leo XIV:

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