wfn.org | Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to attend the funeral of Pope

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ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE
  HOLY AND SACRED SYNOD
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ANNOUNCEMENT

His all Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will travel to Rome on
Thursday, April 7,  in order to attend the funeral of the late Pope John
Paul II, with whom he had met four times during the last decade and had
collaborated for the advancement of relations between the two Churches.

The Ecumenical Patriarch will be accompanied by Their Eminences
Metropolitan Gennadios of Italy, Metropolitan Kyrillos of Imvros and
Tenedos, and Metropolitan Ioannis of Pergamos, representative of the
Ecumenical Patriarchate in the Joint Committee of the International
Orthodox and Roman Catholic Dialogue, the Reverend Deacon Dositheos
Anagnostopoulos and Mr. Nikolaos Maginas, Reporter-Photographer.

The Ecumenical Patriarch will return to Constantinople in the evening of
Friday, April 8.

Patriarchate, April 5, 2005
Chief Secretariat of the Holy and Sacred Synod

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