Full schedule of papal trip to Georgia and Azerbaijan

Times are local, with Eastern Daylight Time in brackets.

Friday, September 30 (Rome, Tbilisi)

- 9am (8am) Departure from Rome's Fiumicino Airport.

- 3pm (8pm) Arrival at Tbilisi International Airport. Welcoming ceremony.

- 3.30pm (8.30pm) Courtesy visit to the president of the republic at the presidential palace.

- 4pm (9pm) Meeting with government authorities and members of civil society and the diplomatic corps in the courtyard of the presidential palace. Speech by Pope.

- 4.40pm (9.40pm) Meeting with Orthodox Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia at the patriarchal palace. Speech by patriarch. Speech by Pope.