After returning to Istanbul from his meeting with Pope Francis in Jerusalem, Patriarch Bartholomew made the surprise announcement that the two of them had “agreed to leave as a legacy to ourselves and to our successors, to celebrate together a gathering in Nicea in 2025, after 17 centuries, the first truly ecumenical synod, where the Creed was first promulgated."
The patriarch’s statement, made in an interview with Asianews, gave rise immediately to all kinds of speculation and, in particular, to the idea that the pope and the patriarch were envisaging the holding of an ecumenical council in 2025 at which bishops from the churches of the East and the West would participate.
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