Vatican City, 25 February 2016 (VIS) –
On Monday, 29 February, the Holy Father Francis will meet with His
Holiness Abuna Mathias, Patriarch of the Orthodox Tewahedo Church of
Ethiopia, who will be present in Rome from Friday 26 to Monday 29.
During his stay the Patriarch will visit the Pontifical Council for
Promoting Christian Unity and the tomb of the apostle Peter, and will
celebrate Holy Mass with the Ethiopian community of Rome on Sunday 28
February in the chapel of the Urbanian College.
The Orthodox Tewahedo Church of
Ethiopia currently consists of 35 million faithful, and a large
community exists in Rome. It enjoys cordial and increasingly close
relations with the Catholic Church, especially following the first
visit in 1993 of the then-Patriarch Abuna Paulos to Pope John Paul
II.
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