The musician is set to play a show at the Palazzo dello Sport in Rome.

Bob Dylan speaks on stage at the 25th-anniversary MusiCares 2015 Person Of The Year Gala honoring Bob Dylan at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Feb. 6, 2015, in Los Angeles. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

This week, Bob Dylan is knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door — well, arguably the closest earthly thing to it — with the folk-rock icon meeting Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Wednesday (Nov. 4).

The Catholic headquarters revealed that the two figures had linked up by sharing a photo on Instagram of them shaking hands.…