List of pastoral visits of Pope Paul VI

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] Pope Paul VI 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 on August 6, 1978.[12]

  1. ^ a b World Almanac and Book of Facts. Facts on File, Inc. 1969. p. 249.
  2. ^ a b The New York Times Encyclopedic Almanac. 1969. p. 440.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference HL was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Elie, Paul (September 2004). "In Search of a Pope". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013. Retrieved January 19, 2011. Paul VI was dubbed 'the pilgrim Pope,' and in the early years of his pontificate he made the moniker fit.
  5. ^ "Papal Visits to Israel: A Retrospective". GoJerusalem.com. May 2009. Archived from the original on April 4, 2013. Retrieved January 19, 2011. Pope Paul VI, otherwise known as the 'Pilgrim Pope,' was the first Pope to travel to six continents while in office, setting an important precedent for future Popes.
  6. ^ Cross, F. L., ed. (2005). The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-280290-9.. See M. G. D'Agostino, Il Primato della Sede di Roma in Leone IX (1049-1054). Studio dei testi latini nella controversia greco-romana nel periodo pregregoriano, Edizioni San Paolo, Cinisello Balsamo 2008. See A. Bayer, Spaltung der Christenheit. Das sogennante Morgenländische Schisma von 1054, Köln-Weimar-Wien 2002.
  7. ^ a b McDonnell, Claudia (July 8, 2015). "Archives Showcases New York Visit Of Pope Paul VI 50 Years Ago". Catholic New York. Archived from the original on April 16, 2020.
  8. ^ "Four Popes Now Memorialized in the North and South Vestibules of St. Patrick's Cathedral". Saintpatrickscathedral.org. December 4, 2018. Archived from the original on April 16, 2020.
  9. ^ Rothman, Lily (September 21, 2015). "The First Time a Pope Visited the U.S. Was Much More Complicated". Time. Archived from the original on April 16, 2020.
  10. ^ "Homily of The Holy Father Paul VI Yankee Stadium, New York Monday, 4 October 1965". Vatican.va. Archived from the original on April 16, 2020.
  11. ^ "Pope Paul VI - Travels". Vatican.va. Archived from the original on March 29, 2013.
  12. ^ "Pope Paul VI 1963-1978". Vatican.va. Archived from the original on March 13, 2013.

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