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| 1958 |
| | Angelo Roncalli is elected pope and takes the name John XXIII | |
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| 1959 |
| | Pope John XXIII summons a second Vatican Council | |
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| 1963 |
| | Pope John XXIII dies, only a few month's after the start of the great Vatican council that he has summoned | |
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| 1963 |
| | Italian cardinal Giovanni Montini is elected pope and takes the name Paul VI | |
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| 1964 |
| | Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras meet in Jerusalem, in the first such meeting since 1438 | |
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| 1965 |
| | Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras preside over simultaneous ceremonies, in Rome and Istanbul, revoking the mutual excommunications of 1054 | |
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| 1967 |
| | Pope Paul VI visits the Patriarch Athenagoras in Istanbul, shocking some Catholics that this visit has preceded one by the Patriarch to Rome | |
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| 1967 |
| | Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras issue a joint declaration, emphasizing mutual respect for each other's traditions | |
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| 1968 |
| | Pope Paul VI issues the encyclical Humanae Vitae, condemning all methods of artificial birth control | |
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| 1970 |
| | Polish composer Andrzej Panufnik's Universal Prayer, a cantata setting poetry by Alexander Pope, has its premiere in New York | |
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