 On 24 January 1960 he was en route back from Cairo and made a stopover in Istanbul where he met with the Patriarch of Constantinople Athenagoras who gave him a box of sweetmeats to give to John XXIII.Between 1971 and 1973 he travelled across the globe to places such as Warsaw, Budapest, Jerusalem, Quebec and New York amongst others.He went to Chile to stop a coup threatening the President Salvador Allende and in Houston participated in a seminar.