page_title: Papal travel
section_title: Travel since the 1960s
hierarchical_section_title: Papal travel / Travel since the 1960s
caption_attribution_description: English: Foreign trips of Pope Paul VI Deutsch: Auslandsreisen von Papst Paul VI.
context_page_description: Papal travel outside Rome has been historically rare, and voluntary travel was non-existent for the first 500 years. Pope John Paul II undertook more pastoral trips than all his predecessors combined. Pope Francis, Pope Paul VI and Pope Benedict XVI also travelled globally, the latter to a lesser extent due to his advanced age.
  Popes resided outside Rome—primarily in Viterbo, Orvieto, and Perugia—during the 13th century, and then absconded to France during the Avignon Papacy. Pope Vigilius in 547, Pope Agatho in 680, and Pope Constantine in 710 visited Constantinople, whereas Pope Martin I was abducted there for trial in 653. Pope Stephen II became the first pope to cross the Alps in 752 to crown Pepin the Short; Pope Pius VII repeated the feat over a millennium later to crown Napoleon.
context_section_description: Pope Paul VI was the first to travel by airplane as pope, the first to leave Italy since 1809, and the first to visit the Western Hemisphere, Africa, Oceania and Asia as pope.
  Pope John Paul II travelled more miles as pope than all his predecessors combined,  and as a result he was seen—in person—by more people than anyone else in history. He travelled approximately 721,052 miles, the equivalent of approximately 31 trips around the circumference of the Earth.
caption: Paul VI (1963—1978)
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