Patriarch Athenagoras - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 21 Mar 2013 03:22:41 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Patriarch Athenagoras - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Orthodox patriarch invites Pope to Holy Land next year https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/03/22/orthodox-patriarch-invites-pope-to-holy-land-next-year/ Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:03:38 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=41986 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

Orthodox patriarch invites Pope to Holy Land next year... Read more]]> 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 the rescinding of the excommunications of 1054 which formalised the Great Schism between the churches of East and West.

Bartholomew I also invited Pope Francis to Constantinople for the feast day of St Andrew on November 30.

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