He took off from Fiumicino Airport at 7:58 a.m. Rome time and landed at 12:30 p.m. in Ankara, local time in Turkey.
Under the motto “One Lord, one faith, one baptism,” the first apostolic journey of Pope Leo XIV began on the morning of Thursday, November 27.
The images you are seeing show the moment when the Pope greets the Apostolic Nuncio of the Vatican in Turkey, Archbishop Marek Solczyńsk, the chief of protocol, and other authorities of the country he will visit until Sunday, November 30.
Leo XIV is the fifth pontiff to visit Turkey, thus fulfilling the wish of his predecessor, Francis, to visit the country where the Council of Nicaea was signed—an event that marks its 1700th anniversary this year.
