Vatican
City, 29 October 2013 (VIS) – Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of
the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, announced in his address
at the opening of the new academic year of the Pontifical Oriental
Institute that a summit meeting of the patriarchs and major
archbishops of the oriental Churches of Syria, Iraq and the Middle
East will be held in the Vatican, in the presence of the Holy Father,
on 21 November.
The
meeting, which will take place from 19 to 22 November, will take as
its general theme the debate “The Eastern Catholic Churches fifty
years after Vatican Council II”.
The
cardinal declared that “Pope Francis has agreed to repeat the
meeting which took place for the first time in 2009”, when the
heads of the Eastern Churches met with Benedict XVI in “a fruitful
morning of reflection”, and will now have the opportunity “to
speak before the Pope on the situation of eastern Christians”.
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