Pope Leo to Meet Patriarch Bartholomew in Historic Visit

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Pope Leo XIV volition conscionable Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I during his upcoming sojourn to Türkiye and Lebanon, marking his archetypal apostolic travel overseas since his election, the Vatican and the Ecumenical Patriarchate announced connected Tuesday.

The six-day trip, scheduled from November 27 to December 2, volition see a joint pilgrimage to the Turkish metropolis of İznik (ancient Nicaea) connected November 28 to commemorate the 1,700th day of the First Council of Nicaea, a defining lawsuit successful Christian past that produced the Nicene Creed.

The Nicene Creed serves arsenic the communal doctrinal model for astir of Christianity, intelligibly defining the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) and confirming the afloat divinity and humanity of Jesus Christ arsenic indispensable for the salvation of humanity.

Bartholomew and Leo to commemorate unneurotic the Nicene Creed

In a connection issued connected Tuesday, the Ecumenical Patriarchate expressed its “joy astatine the forthcoming sojourn of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV of Rome to Türkiye,” noting that it comes “in effect to the expressed privation and invitation of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to commemorate unneurotic the historical 1,700th day of the First Ecumenical Council convened successful Nicaea.”

The Patriarchate confirmed that the 2 Primates volition question unneurotic to Nicaea of Bithynia connected November 28, earlier the Pope’s authoritative sojourn to the See of the Ecumenical Patriarchate astatine the Phanar connected November 29 and 30, wherever they volition jointly observe the Feast of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called, laminitis of the Church of Constantinople.

According to a connection from the Holy See Press Office, the Pope accepted invitations from the heads of authorities and religion leaders successful some countries. Press Office Director Matteo Bruni said the sojourn would besides see clip successful Istanbul, wherever Pope Leo and Patriarch Bartholomew volition observe the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle connected November 30 astatine the office of the Ecumenical Patriarchate successful the Phanar district.

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