Pope Paul VI Timeline of Events

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Pope Paul VI

Paul VI , born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini , reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding Pope John XXIII, who had convened the Second Vatican Council, he decided to continue it...

Timeline of Events

1965

10.4.1965

Becoming the first Pope to ever visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere, Pope Paul VI arrives in New York.

10.28.1965

''Nostra Aetate'', the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions" of the Second Vatican Council, is promulgated by Pope Paul VI; it absolves the Jews of responsibility for the death of Jesus, reversing Innocent III's 760 year-old declaration.

12.7.1965

Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.

1968

6.30.1968

Pope Paul VI issues the ''Credo of the People of God''.

8.22.1968

Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.

1975

9.14.1975

The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.