Pope Paul VI

The Pilgrim Pope

Pope Paul VI became the first pope to visit five continents, and was until the election of Pope John Paul II the most travelled pope in history, earning the nickname the Pilgrim Pope. In 1970 he was subject to an assassination attempt in the Philippines, at Manila International Airport. The assailant, a Bolivian Surrealist painter named Benjamín Mendoza y Amor Flores, lunged toward Pope Paul with a kris but was subdued. While the Vatican denied it, subsequent evidence suggests Pope Paul did indeed receive a stab wound in the incident.

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Continent - Pope John Paul II - 1970 - Philippines - Manila International Airport - Surrealist - Benjamín Mendoza y Amor Flores - Kris

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Pope Paul became the second pope to meet an Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, Michael Ramsey, after the visit of Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher to Pope John XXIII on December 2nd 1960. He was also the first pope for centuries to meet the heads of various Eastern Orthodox faiths. Notably, in 1964 he met Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople and they rescinded the 1054 excommunications of the Great Schism and produced the Catholic-Orthodox Joint declaration of 1965.

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Anglican - Archbishop of Canterbury - Michael Ramsey - Geoffrey Fisher - Pope John XXIII - December 2nd - 1960 - Eastern Orthodox - 1964 - Patriarch Athenagoras - Constantinople - 1054 - Excommunication - Great Schism - Catholic-Orthodox Joint declaration of 1965

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