His Eminence Cardinal Franz König, Archbishop of Vienna, left, receives Dr. Hans Koechler, President of the International Progress Organization, right, at the Archiepiscopal Palace in Vienna; center: Professor Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, President of the World Phenomenology Institute (4 February 1980).

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