Last week, the religious news world lit up with excitement when AsiaNews announced a celebration of the Council of Nicaea on its 1700th anniversary in 2025. Filled with ecumenical overtones, the press release focused on a joint celebration that will include the Pope of Rome and the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. This report came at the heels of the notable meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew in Jerusalem, which celebrated the anniversary of the 1964 mutual lifting of excommunications by Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I (resulting in the Catholic-Orthodox Joint Declaration of 1965). Here’s the full text about the 2025 event.
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