The Pope in Turkey: Continuing to Develop a Bond with the Orthodox
Unity and religious freedom are high on the agenda for three-day visit.
November 25, 2014
John Burger
Just six months ago, Pope Francis and the Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I met in Jerusalem, a 50th anniversary commemoration of the meeting of their respective predecessors, which energized the modern effort to restore full communion between the Churches.
Most people may have forgotten the May 25 meeting by now, with the deluge of events that have captured world attention since then—a war between Israel and Gaza, the advance of the Islamic State, the spread of Ebola.
But the embrace of the Pope and Patriarch in Jerusalem provided a meaningful theme for the reunion that will take place this weekend in Turkey. Photos and documents from the Jerusalem meeting are still featured on the website of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, under the title “The Brothers of Galilee: Peter and Andrew in the Holy Land.”
The names, of course, refer to the fact that the Bishop of Rome is successor to St. Peter, while the Archbishop of Constantinople is in the apostolic line of his brother, St. Andrew.
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