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The List of pastoral visits of Pope Paul VI outside Italy details the travels of the first pope to leave Italy since 1809, and the first to visit the Western Hemisphere, Africa, and Asia during his reign.[1][2] He 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 Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. 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. During the first papal visit to the United States in October 1965, Paul VI met with President Lyndon B. Johnson and addressed the United Nations. 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. He died August 6, 1978.[6]
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1. January 4 — January 6, 1964 - Jordan and Israel[8] This was the first time a reigning pontiff had flown on an airplane,[9] the first papal pilgrimage to the Holy Land,[10] and the first time a Pope had left Italy in more than a century.[11] Paul VI met Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.[12]
2. December 2 — December 5, 1964 - Lebanon (stopover in Beirut) and India.[13] Attended the 38th International Eucharistic Congress in Bombay.
3. October 4, 1965 - the United States (New York City)[14] The Pope met with President Lyndon B. Johnson,[15] addressed the United Nations General Assembly,[16] celebrated Mass at Yankee Stadium, and visited the New York World's Fair.[17]
4. May 13, 1967 - Portugal (pilgrimage to the Marian shrine in Fátima)[18]
5. July 25 — July 26, 1967 - Turkey[19] Second meeting with Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople.[12]
6. August 21 — August 25, 1968 - Colombia and Bermuda (stopover in Hamilton).[20] Attended the 39th International Eucharistic Congress in Bogotá.
7. June 10, 1969 - Switzerland (Geneva) Paul VI addressed the International Labour Organization[21]
8. July 31 — August 2, 1969 - Uganda[22]
9. November 25 — December 5, 1970 - Iran, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) (stopover in Dacca), Philippines, American Samoa (stopover in Pago Pago), Samoa, Australia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, and Ceylon[23] The Pope's last international trip took him to nine countries. He met several heads of state including Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran,[24] President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines,[25] the O le Ao o le Malo of Samoa Malietoa Tanumafili II,[26] Governor-General Paul Hasluck of Australia,[27] and President Suharto of Indonesia.[28] On November 27, 1970 the Pope was the target of an assassination attempt at Manila International Airport in the Philippines.[29]