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| Volume 6 Number 18 - Tuesday, May 4th, 2004 |
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Orthodox Patriarch to visit Vatican Vatican, Apr. 27 (CWNews.com) - Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, the acknowledged leader of the Orthodox world, will visit the Vatican on June 29 and join with Pope John Paul II for an ecumenical liturgical service on that day. In recent years it has become traditional for the Ecumenical Patriarch to send a delegation of Orthodox prelates to Rome on June 29, the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, the patrons of the Rome diocese-- just as the Vatican sends a delegation to join the Orthodox leader on the feast of St. Andrew, the patron on Constantinople. However, the fact that Patriarch Bartholomew himself is making the trip is seen as a significant gesture.
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