Posts Tagged ‘Patriarch Athenagoras’

Orthodox patriarch invites Pope to Holy Land next year

Friday, March 22nd, 2013

Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, the leader of the Eastern Orthodox Communion, has invited Pope Francis to travel with him to the Holy Land next year to mark the 50th anniversary of the historic embrace between Patriarch Athenagoras and Pope Paul VI in 1964. The meeting of Athenagoras and Paul VI in Jerusalem led to Read more