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| 1978 |
| | | Italian cardinal Albino Luciani is elected pope and takes the name John Paul I | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Pope John Paul I dies, after a pontificate of only 33 days | |
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| 1978 |
| | | A Catholic-Orthodox joint commission acknowledges the long-term aim of re-establishing full communion between the two churches | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla is elected pope and takes the name John Paul II | |
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| 1979 |
| | | John Paul II makes an emotional and influential return to Poland, the country of his birth | |
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| 1980 |
| | | Archbishop Oscar Romero, an exponent of liberation theology, is killed as he celebrates Mass in San Salvador | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Christian militiamen massacre Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Chatila camps in Lebanon | |
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| 1983 |
| | | Government imposition of Islamic law (sharia) triggers renewed civil war in Sudan between the Muslim north and Christian south | |
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| 1986 |
| | | Desmond Tutu is the first black African to be archbishop of Cape Town | |
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| 1988 |
| | | A woman is consecrated as Suffragan Bishop of Massachusetts, becoming the first female bishop in the Anglican Communion's historic line of succession from St Peter | |
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