List of pastoral visits of Pope Paul VI explained

The list of pastoral visits of Pope Paul VI details the travels of the first pope to leave Italy since 1809, representing the first ever papal pilgrimage to the Holy Land 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".^[3] ^[4] 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.^[5] 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.^[6] During that visit, the Pope first stopped at St. Patrick's Cathedral where some 55,000 people lined the streets to greet him,^[7] met with President Lyndon B. Johnson at the Waldorf Astoria,^[8] addressed the United Nations General Assembly, celebrated Mass at Yankee Stadium,^[9] and viewed Michelangelo's Pieta at the New York World's Fair in Queens. 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.^[10] He died on August 6, 1978.^[11]

Visits

Outside Italy

Voyage	Date	width=215	Nations Visited	width=215	Places Visited	width=415	Notes
1.	4–6 January 1964			Amman, Jerusalem Old City (Jordanian side), Bethlehem	This was the first time a reigning pontiff had flown on an airplane,^[12] the first papal pilgrimage to the Holy Land,^[13] and the first time a Pope had left Italy in more than a century.^[14] Paul VI met King Hussein of Jordan in Amman and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.^[15]
5 January 1964		Megiddo, Nazareth, Sea of Galilee
2.	2 December 1964		Beirut	stopover
2–5 December 1964		Bombay
3.	4 October 1965			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 1967	Portugal	Fátima	Pilgrimage to the Marian shrine, the Sanctuary of Fátima^[19]
5.	25–26 July 1967	Turkey	Istanbul, Ephesus, Smyrna	Second meeting with Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople.
6.	22–24 August 1968	Colombia	Bogotá	Attended the 39th International Eucharistic Congress in Bogotá.
24 August 1968		Hamilton	Stopover
7.	10 June 1969	Switzerland	Geneva	Paul VI addressed the International Labour Organization.^[20]
8.	31 July–2 August 1969	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 1970		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 1970		Dhaka
	27-29 November 1970	Philippines	Manila
	30 November 1970		Pago Pago
	30 November 1970		Leulumoega
	30 November–3 December 1970	Australia	Sydney
	3–4 December 1970	Indonesia	Jakarta
	4 December 1970		Hong Kong
	4–5 December 1970		Colombo

In Italy

August 11, 1964: Orvieto

Pilgrimage on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the bull "Transiturus".

October 24, 1964: Montecassino
June 10, 1965: Pisa

The Pope attended the National Eucharistic Congress.

September 1, 1966: Alatri, Fumone, Ferentino and Anagni
September 11, 1966: Carpineto Romano and Colleferro
December 24, 1966: Florence

The Pope visited Florence, affected by severe flooding on November 4 of that year.

December 24 and 25, 1968: Taranto
April 24, 1970: Cagliari
September 3, 1971: Albano
September 8, 1971: Subiaco
September 16, 1972: Udine, Venice and Aquileia

The Pope attended the National Eucharistic Congress in Udine.

December 24, 1972: Ponzano Romano and Sant'Oreste
September 14, 1974: Aquino
August 8, 1976: Bolsena

The pope visited Bolsena on the occasion of the closing of the International Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia.

September 17, 1977: Pescara^[28]