Vatican
City, 27 June 2013
(VIS) – The Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity issued
a press release today with the information that a delegation sent by
the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I will visit
Rome from 27 to 29 June 2013 as part of the traditional exchange of
delegations for their feasts of patron saints—29 June in Rome for
the celebration of the Apostles Peter and Paul and 30 November in
Istanbul for the celebration of St. Andrew the Apostle.
His
Eminence Metropolitan Ioannis (Zizioulas) of Pergamo, co-president of
the International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the
Catholic and Orthodox Churches, will head the delegation and will be
accompanied by His Eminence Athenagoras (Yves Peckstadt), bishop of
Sinope and auxiliary of the metropolitan of Belgium, and
Archimandrite Fr. Prodromos Xenakis, vice secretary of the Holy
Eparchial Synod of the Church of Crete.
On
Friday, 28 June, the Patriarchate's delegation will be received by
the Holy Father Francis and then will talk with the Pontifical
Council for Promoting Christian Unity. On Saturday, 29 June, the
delegation's members will attend a Eucharistic celebration presided
by the Holy Father.
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