The Purpose of the Meeting Between Pope
Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in
Jerusalem
On Sunday, May 25. 2014, Ecumenical Patriarch
Bartholomew and Pope Francis will meet at the
Church of the Holy Sepulcher to commemorate a
meeting in the Holy Land fifty years ago by
their revered predecessors, Ecumenical Patriarch
Athenagoras and Pope Paul VI.
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An Outline of the Theological Dialogue Between
the Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic
Church
A summary listing of the theological dialogue
between the Orthodox Church and the Roman
Catholic Church from 1963 to the present day.
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What Divides Us
In his 1985 encyclical, “Slavorum Apostoli,”
Pope John Paul II wrote that all Christians
should have an appreciation of the wide variety
of traditions in the church, especially with
regard to the two great Eastern and Western
streams of Christianity.
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A Century of Catholic-Orthodox Relations
Since the earliest days of the church, followers
of Jesus Christ have been divided as to how to
interpret and practice his teachings.
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Relations between the Catholic Church and the
Orthodox Church
The origins of the international
Orthodox-Catholic dialogue can be traced back to
the warming of relations that took place between
the two churches in the 1960s.
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Orthodox Church Highlights Synodality, the
Holy Spirit Creating Community
In an interview with the Italian newspaper
Corriere della Sera published March 5, Pope
Francis was asked about the significance of the
meeting he was planning to have with Ecumenical
Patriarch Bartholomew in the Holy Land in late
May. In his response, the pope said that,
"Orthodox theology is very rich. And I
believe that they have great theologians at this
moment. Their vision of the Church and of
synodality is marvelous." What did the pope
mean by this?
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