•    Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras meets with Pope Paul VI on the Mount of Olives on January 5 and 6 in 1964, in Jerusalem.

•    Pope Paul VI visits Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras in Constantinople at the Phanar on July 25, 1967.

•    Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras visits Pope Paul VI in Rome on October 28, 1967.

•    Pope John Paul II visits Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios I in Constantinople at the Phanar on November 30, 1979.

•    Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios I visits Pope John Paul II in Rome on December 7, 1987.

•    Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew visits Pope John Paul II in Rome on June 29, 1995.

•    Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew meets with Pope John Paul II at Assisi, Italy, on January 24, 2002, for a “Day of Prayer for Peace in the World.”

•    Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Pope John Paul II issue a joint declaration on the protection of the creation simultaneously in Rome and in Venice, June 10, 2002.

•    Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew visits Pope John Paul II in Rome on June 29, 2004.

•    Pope John Paul II and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew preside over an Ecumenical Celebration in Rome, at the Vatican Basilica, on November 27, 2004, on the occasion of the Return of the Relics of Sts. Gregory the Theologian and St. John Chrysostom.

•    Pope John Paul II passes away on April 2, 2005.  Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew personally attends his funeral at the Vatican on April 8, 2005.

•    Pope Benedict XVI visits Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Constantinople at the Phanar on November 30, 2006.