Here is the detailed schedule released by the Vatican. Times - not all of which had been announced by 11 July - are local, with Eastern Daylight Time in parentheses:
Friday, 30 September (Rome to Tbilisi)
- 9 am (3 am) Departure from Rome's Fiumicino Airport.
- 3 pm (7 am) Arrival at Tbilisi International Airport. Welcoming ceremony.
- Courtesy visit to the president of the republic at the presidential palace.
- Meeting with government authorities and members of civil society and the diplomatic corps in the courtyard of the presidential palace.
- Meeting with Catholicos Ilia II, patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Georgia, at the patriarchal palace.
- Meeting with Chaldean Catholics at the Chaldean Catholic Church of St Simon the Tanner.
Saturday, 1 October (Tbilisi to Mtskheta)
- Mass at Mikheil Meskhi Stadium.
- Meeting with priests, men and women religious at the Church of the Assumption.
- Meeting with volunteers and people receiving assistance from the Catholic Church near an assistance centre run by the Order of St Camillus.
- Visit to patriarchal Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta.
Sunday, 2 October (Tbilisi, Baku)
- Farewell ceremony at Tbilisi International Airport.
- 8:10 am (12:10 am) Departure by plane for Baku, Azerbaijan.
- 9:30 am (1:30 am) Arrival at Heydar Aliyev International Airport of Baku.
- Mass at the Salesian-run Church of the Immaculate Conception in Baku.
- Lunch with the Salesian community and the papal entourage.
- Welcoming ceremony in the square of the presidential palace in Genclik.
- Courtesy visit to the president of the republic at the presidential palace in Genclik.
- Meeting with government leaders at the Heydar Aliyev Center.
- Private meeting with the sheikh of Muslims in the Caucasus at the Heydar mosque.
- Meeting with the Orthodox bishop of Baku and with the president of the Jewish community.
- Farewell ceremony at Baku airport.
- 7:15 pm (11:15 am) Departure from Baku airport.
- 10 pm (4 pm) Arrival at Rome's Ciampino Airport.
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