List of pastoral visits of Pope Paul VI

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Commemorative sculpture of the meeting between Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I in Jerusalem

The list of pastoral visits of Pope Paul VI details the travels of the first pope to leave Italy since 1809, [1] [2] representing the first ever papal pilgrimage to the Holy Land [3] and the first papal visit to the Americas, Africa, Oceania, and Asia. [1] [2] He visited six continents, and was the most-travelled pope in history to that time, earning the nickname "the Pilgrim Pope". [4] [5] With his travels he opened new avenues for the papacy, which were continued by his successors Popes John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis. He traveled to the Holy Land in 1964 where he met with Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I in Jerusalem which led to rescinding the excommunications of the Great Schism, which took place in 1054. [6] The Pope also traveled to the Eucharistic Congresses in Bombay, India and Bogotá, Colombia. The first papal visit to the United States occurred on October 4, 1965, when Paul VI visited New York City to address the United Nations at the invitation of Secretary-General U Thant. [7] During that visit, the Pope first stopped at St. Patrick's Cathedral where some 55,000 people lined the streets to greet him, [8] met with President Lyndon B. Johnson at the Waldorf Astoria, [9] addressed the United Nations General Assembly, celebrated Mass at Yankee Stadium, [10] and viewed Michelangelo's Pieta at the New York World's Fair in Queens. [7] Fifty years after the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima, he visited the shrine in Fátima, Portugal in 1967. He undertook a pastoral visit to Africa in 1969. After a 1970 trip to several Asian and Pacific nations, he made no additional international trips. [11] He died August 6, 1978. [12]

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Visits

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Nations visited by Paul VI

Outside Italy

VoyageDate [11] Nations Visited [11] Places Visited [11] Notes
1.4–6 January 1964Flag of Jordan.svg  Jordan Amman, Jerusalem Old City (Jordanian side), Bethlehem This was the first time a reigning pontiff had flown on an airplane, [13] the first papal pilgrimage to the Holy Land, [3] and the first time a Pope had left Italy in more than a century. [14] Paul VI met King Hussein of Jordan in Amman [11] and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. [15]
5 January 1964Flag of Israel.svg  Israel Megiddo, Nazareth, Sea of Galilee
2.2 December 1964Flag of Lebanon.svg  Lebanon Beirut stopover
2–5 December 1964Flag of India.svg  India Bombay Attended the 38th International Eucharistic Congress
3.4 October 1965Flag of the United States.svg  United States New York City The Pope met with President Lyndon B. Johnson, [16] addressed the United Nations General Assembly, [17] celebrated Mass at Yankee Stadium, and visited the New York World's Fair. [18]
4.13 May 1967Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal Fátima Pilgrimage to the Marian shrine, the Sanctuary of Fátima [19]
5.25–26 July 1967Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey Istanbul, Ephesus, Smyrna Second meeting with Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople. [15]
6.22–24 August 1968Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia Bogotá Attended the 39th International Eucharistic Congress in Bogotá.
24 August 1968Flag of Bermuda.svg  Bermuda Hamilton Stopover
7.10 June 1969Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland Geneva Paul VI addressed the International Labour Organization. [20]
8.31 July–2 August 1969Flag of Uganda.svg  Uganda Kampala, Namugongo The first papal visit to an African country. The Pope attended the Eucharistic celebration in Kampala at the conclusion of the Symposium organized by the Bishops of Africa. He met the President of Uganda, Milton Obote, and members of the Parliament of Uganda. Meeting with the representatives of the religious leaders of Uganda.
9.26–27 November 1970State Flag of Iran (1964).svg  Iran Tehran The Pope's last international trip took him to nine countries. He met several heads of state including Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, [21] President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, [22] the O le Ao o le Malo of Samoa Malietoa Tanumafili II, [23] Governor-General Paul Hasluck of Australia, [24] and President Suharto of Indonesia. [25] On November 27, 1970, the Pope was the target of an assassination attempt by Benjamín Mendoza y Amor Flores at Manila International Airport in the Philippines. [26] On September 16, 1972, a documentary film about the Pope's Philippine visit premiered at the Greenhills theater in San Juan, Rizal, Philippines. [27]
27 November 1970Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan [Note 1] Dhaka
27-29 November 1970Flag of the Philippines (navy blue).svg  Philippines Manila
30 November 1970Flag of American Samoa.svg  American Samoa Pago Pago
30 November 1970Flag of Samoa.svg  Western Samoa Leulumoega
30 November–3 December 1970Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Sydney
3–4 December 1970Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia Jakarta
4 December 1970Flag of Hong Kong 1959.svg  Hong Kong [Note 2] Hong Kong
4–5 December 1970Flag of Ceylon 1951-1972.svg  Ceylon [Note 3] Colombo

In Italy

Pilgrimage on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the bull "Transiturus".
The Pope attended the National Eucharistic Congress.
The Pope visited Florence, affected by severe flooding on November 4 of that year.
The Pope attended the National Eucharistic Congress in Udine.
The pope visited Bolsena on the occasion of the closing of the International Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia.
The Pope attended the National Eucharistic Congress.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ This visit was to East Pakistan which is now the separate nation of Bangladesh. Bangladesh was a province of Pakistan under the name of "East Pakistan" at the time of Pope Paul VI's visit in 1970. It became an independent sovereign state in 1971 following the Bangladesh Liberation War and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
  2. ↑ Hong Kong was a British crown colony at the time of Pope Paul VI's visit in 1970. It was returned to China on 1 July 1997.
  3. ↑ Name was changed from Ceylon to Sri Lanka on 29 August 1972.

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