Pope Francis and the Orthodox Coptic pope have delivered a joint blessing from St. Peter’s Square.
Pope Francis, right, starts his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, with the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Tawadros II,Wednesday, May 10, 2023. – Pope Francis and the Coptic Orthodox pope, Tawadros II, delivered a joint blessing Wednesday from St. Peter’s Square in a significant ecumenical gesture to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a historic meeting of their predecessors.
Francis has called that declaration a “milestone on the ecumenical journey,” and welcomed Tawadros to the Vatican soon after his election in 2013. Francis then visited Tawadros in 2017 at the Coptic Orthodox cathedral in Cairo at a time in which Egypt’s Orthodox Christians were reeling from a spate of Islamic militant suicide bombings at churches that killed dozens of people.
Tawadros, for his part, reaffirmed the ties that unite the churches. “Despite the differences in our roots and affiliations, we are united by the love of Christ who dwells in us and the host of our apostle fathers and saints surrounds and guides us,” he said, according to a translation of his Arabic remarks provided by the Vatican.
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