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Title: Historic meeting between Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox head 'getting closer'
Source: The Independent
URL Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w ... d-getting-closer-10352898.html
Published: Jun 29, 2015
Author: Philip Pullella
Post Date: 2015-06-30 16:03:26 by cranky
Keywords: None
Views: 794
Comments: 2

The meeting would be a significant step towards healing the 1,000-year-old rift between the Western and Eastern branches of Christianity

An historic meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church is "getting closer every day," a senior Orthodox prelate has said.

The unprecedented meeting would be a significant step towards healing the 1,000-year-old rift between the Western and Eastern branches of Christianity, which split in the Great Schism of 1054.

"Now such a meeting is getting closer every day but it must be well prepared," Metropolitan Hilarion, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church's foreign relations department, said in an interview with Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper.

He said the meeting between the head of the 1.2 billion member Roman Catholic Church and the head of Russian Orthodox Church - which counts some 165 million of the world's 250 million Orthodox Christians - would take place in a "neutral" country, not in Moscow or the Vatican. Austria or Hungary were possibilities, he said.

Hilarion, one of the most influential people in world Orthodoxy, said he could not say if the meeting could take place as early as this year, but there was currently "a good dynamic" between the two Churches.

One of the biggest bones of contention is the fate of many church properties that Soviet dictator Josef Stalin confiscated from Eastern Rite Catholics, who worship in an Orthodox rite but owe their allegiance to Rome. (Getty Images) Francis told reporters on the plane returning from a trip to Turkey last year that he had sent word to Kirill that he was willing to meet the Russian patriarch "wherever you want, you call me and I'll come".

The Russian Orthodox Church has accused Catholics of using their new freedoms of religion following the break-up of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s to try to convert people from the Orthodox, a charge the Vatican has denied.

One of the biggest bones of contention is the fate of many church properties that Soviet dictator Josef Stalin confiscated from Eastern Rite Catholics, who worship in an Orthodox rite but owe their allegiance to Rome.

Stalin gave the property to the Russian Orthodox Church but after the fall of communism, Eastern Rite Catholics took back many church properties, mostly in western Ukraine.

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#1. To: cranky (#0)

The meeting would be a significant step towards healing the 1,000-year-old rift between the Western and Eastern branches of Christianity

The Eastern Orthodox Bishops are all equal, but the Bishop of Constantinople is the first among equals, not the Bishop of Moscow. The Pope already met with Patriarch Bartholomew in Turkey.

Pope Francis has attended an Istanbul church ceremony alongside Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians. In a symbolic show of deference, Francis asked for Bartholomew's blessing.

cranko  posted on  2015-06-30   16:26:56 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: cranky (#0)

One of the biggest bones of contention is the fate of many church properties that Soviet dictator Josef Stalin confiscated from Eastern Rite Catholics, who worship in an Orthodox rite but owe their allegiance to Rome.

That is because the Orthodox consider those churches theirs that were stolen from them by the Catholic Polish-Latvian empire that created the Uniate movement via force of arms.

Pericles  posted on  2015-07-01   1:14:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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