Posts Tagged ‘Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople’

Pope Francis gives relics of St Peter to Orthodox patriarch

Monday, July 8th, 2019

A reliquary containing bone fragments believed to belong to St Peter passed from the Vatican’s safekeeping to Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople last week. “For us, this was an extraordinary and unexpected event that we could not have hoped for,” said Archbishop Job of Telmessos who received the relics on Bartholomew’s behalf. Job had Read more