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Buckingham Palace confirmed that King Charles and Queen Camilla would make a state visit to Holy See to meet Pope Leo XIV.
The tour, which will take place in late October, will coincide with the celebrations for the 2025 Papacy Jubilee, which is an extremely symbolic time for the Catholic Church, and also commemorates the special relationship between the Church of England and the Catholic Church, and this year’s jubilee theme is the HOPE volumes.
The King and the Queen lastly visited Holy See earlier this year, where they had a special meeting with Pope Francis shortly before her 88 -year -old death.
The historical audience took place after the planned state visits in April during their visit to the Republic of Italy.
This year, the prince of Wales represented his father at the funeral of Pope Francis in April, while the Duke of Edinburgh, Pope Leo’s opening in the Vatican city the next month, saw two more royal visit to the Holy See for representing the Galler Prince’s father.
Although very little approved about the journey, his majesty will meet with Pope Leo Xiv, whose real name is Robert Prevost. After the death of Pope Francis on April 21, he became the new president of the Catholic Church in May.
During his long term of office as a prince of Wales, the King visited five times the Holy See: April 1985, April 2005 Pope II. John Paul, April 2009, April 2017 and October 2019 for the funeral of Cardinal John Henry Newman for the canonization.
Meanwhile, Queen still joined two trips to the King in April 2009 and April 2017.
King as the Prince of Wales was taken by Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to 2009 and Pope Francis during his visits in 2017 and 2019. Charles, Pope II in Canterbury in 1982. He met with John Paul – the first visit to England by a reigning pope.
