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It’s official: Pope Francis will visit D.C. as part of a three-city trip to the U.S.

NBC News reports that the Pope confirmed his three-city visit to the U.S. today, though the exact details of the trip are still in the planning stages, but the Pope will visit Philadelphia (which was already announced and planned) and New York in addition to D.C. sometime in the fall.

While the details of his D.C. visit are still being figured out, he did say he “plans to celebrate Mass at Washington’s Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception so he can canonize American missionary Junipero Serra, who brought Christianity to the western United States.”

Back in August, the Associated Press first broke the news of the Pope’s potential visit to D.C., writing that, among the things he hopes to do, is to address Congress.

The last time D.C. got a visit from a Pope, if you recall, was in 2008, when Pope Benedict XVI came to town for three days, where he met with President George W. Bush and celebrated mass at Nationals Park.