DELEGATION FROM THE HOLY SEE TRAVELS TO ATHENS

VATICAN CITY, FEB 10, 2003 (VIS) - A delegation from the Holy See, led by Cardinal Walter Kasper, leaves today for Athens for a five-day visit, in response to an invitation extended to Pope John Paul II by the archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Christodoulos, to return the visit paid to Rome in March 2002 by a delegation of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Greece.

Joining Cardinal Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, will be Bishop Brian Farrell, council secretary and Msgr. Johan Bonny, an official of the Eastern Section of this pontifical council. Archbishop Paul Fouad Tabet, apostolic nuncio in Greece, will join the Holy See delegation in Athens. The visit ends on February 14.

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