Meeting of Pope and Patriarch Spark Hopes of Bridging Thousand-Year Rift

[Frodo]

Meeting of pope and patriarch highlights ancient rifts, current fears

By Nick Miroff and Brian Murphy
February 12 at 7:08 PM

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[Zioneer]

Really? They haven't meet in 1000 years? I'm honestly kind of surprised, considering the vast number of times that a Pope and a Russian Orthodox Patriarch could have met over those years.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Really? They haven't meet in 1000 years? I'm honestly kind of surprised, considering the vast number of times that a Pope and a Russian Orthodox Patriarch could have met over those years.

*head desk*

Can we please stop reporting that the Patriarch of Moscow is the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Now he is head of the Russian Orthodox Church, but that's not the same thing.

And Pope Paul VI met the then Patriarch of Constantinople in 1964.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Yeah the article is playing up something that's not really a big deal. This is equivalent as to if the actual Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople met with some Catholic archbishop from a large region, not the Pope.

[Zioneer]

Really? They haven't meet in 1000 years? I'm honestly kind of surprised, considering the vast number of times that a Pope and a Russian Orthodox Patriarch could have met over those years.

*head desk*

Can we please stop reporting that the Patriarch of Moscow is the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Now he is head of the Russian Orthodox Church, but that's not the same thing.

And Pope Paul VI met the then Patriarch of Constantinople in 1964.

That's what I said though? I said Russian Orthodox Patriarch, not Eastern Orthodox or Greek Orthodox. I know the Patriarch of Constantinople is higher ranking within the greater Orthodox tradition (technically), and that the Popes have met with them before. I'm just surprised that the Patriarch of Moscow hasn't met any of the Popes before. I would have thought John Paul II would have met the Patriarch, at least.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I'm just surprised that the Patriarch of Moscow hasn't met any of the Popes before. I would have thought John Paul II would have met the Patriarch, at least.

Lingering disputes over the disposition of Catholic church properties in the former Soviet Union precluded that.  Things were lining up for a possible meeting between John Paul II and Alexy II shortly before the former died in 2005