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Catholic and Orthodox Churches to meet 08-07-2015
Historic meeting of pope and Russian Orthodox head seen nearer
World | July 8, 2015 9:35am EDT
Pope Francis waves as he leads his Sunday Angelus prayer in Saint Peter's square at the Vatican June 28, 2015.
Reuters/Alessandro Bianchi
An historic meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church is "getting closer every day," a senior Orthodox prelate said in an interview published on Sunday.
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.
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".
This is a very interesting News Article as Bible Students have been expecting this and watching this development for years. Bible Prophecy has revealed to us that the Catholic and Orthodox Churches will be United once more, before Christ's Return. This development goes hand in hand with Britain's Exit from the EU and Russia's rise to the position of being a "guard' unto the EU.
See this article here to learn about this: Catholic and Orthodox Churches to UNITE
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