The Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Franz König, left, receiving Dr. Hans Koechler, right, at the Archiepiscopal Palace in Vienna (October 1979). Center: Professor Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, President of the World Phenomenology Institute.

Cardinal König supported the activities of the I.P.O. in the field of inter-religious dialogue and took active interest in the 1981 conference on the concept of monotheism in Islam and Christianity.