World Youth Day (or in short 'WYD') was initiated by Blessed Pope John Paul II in 1985. It is celebrated diocesan level annually, and at a week-long international level every two to three years at different locations. The international level events attract hundreds of thousands of youth from almost every country on the planet.
The Patron Saint of World Youth Days is Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Since his beatification, Pope John Paul II, who started the event, has become its co-patron.
In the month before the Extraordinary Synod, John Paul II took the occasion of the United Nations' International Youth Year to launch one of the signature initiatives of his pontificate-the World Youth Days that would draw millions of young people on pilgrimage to Europe, Latin America, North America, Asia, and Oceania.
The idea of the World Youth Day, the Pope remembered, could be traced back to his young friends in Srodowisko and their exploration of the personal and vocational dynamics of adolescence and young adulthood. His early papal pilgrimages, in Italy and abroad, had convinced him that a pastoral strategy of accompaniment with young people was as valid for a pope as it had been for a fledgling priest.
| Year | Date | Host | Attendance | Theme | Anthem | Mass |
| April 15 | 300,000 | Holy Year of the Redemption: A Festival of Hope | Resta Qui Con Noi | · Holy Mass held at Piazza San Pietro · Pope John Paul II entrusts the WYD Cross to the Youth | ||
| March 31 | 300,000 | · Holy Mass held at Piazza San Pietro | ||||
| April 11–12 | 1,000,000 | We ourselves have known and put our faith in God’s love towards ourselves (1 Jn 4:16) | Un Nuevo Sol | · First WYD outside Europe | ||
| August 15–20 | 400,000 | I am the Way, the Truth and the Life (Jn 14:6) | Somos Los Jóvenes | · Final Mass held at Monte do Gozo | ||
| 15 | 1,600,000 | You have received a spirit of sonship (Rom 8:15) | Abba Ojcze [Polish Italian | |||
| August 10–15 | 500,000 | I came that they might have life, and have it to the full (Jn 10:10) | (We Are) One Body | · Final Mass held at Cherry Creek State Park · First WYD in North America | ||
| January 10–15 | 5,000,000 | As the Father sent me, so am I sending you (Jn 20:21) | Tell the World of His Love | · Final Mass held at Luneta Park · First WYD in Asia | ||
| August 19–24 | 1,200,000 | Teacher, where are you staying? Come and see (cf. Jn 1:38-39) | Maître Et Seigneur | · Final Mass held at Longchamp Racecourse | ||
| August 15–20 | 2,000,000 | The Word became flesh and dwelt among us (Jn 1:14) | Emmanuel | · Final Mass held at Tor Vergata · Held on the occasion of the Great Jubilee | ||
| July 23–28 | 800,000 | You are the salt of the earth ... you are the light of the world (Mt 5:13-14) | Lumière Du Monde/Light Of The World | · Final Mass held at Downsview Park · Last WYD attended by Pope John Paul II · First WYD in Canada | ||
| August 16–21 | 1,200,000 | We have come to worship Him (Mt 2:2) | Venimus Adorare Eum | · Final Mass held at Marienfeld · First WYD attended by Pope Benedict XVI | ||
| July 15–20 | 400,000 | You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you; and you will be my witnesses. (Ac 1:8) | Receive The Power | · Final Mass held at Randwick Racecourse · First WYD in Oceania and Second Time in Southern Hemisphere | ||
| August 16–21 | TBD | Rooted and built up in Jesus Christ, Firm in the Faith (Col 2:7) | Firmes en la Fe | · Spain becomes the first country (outside the Vatican/Italy) to host WYD twice |
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