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Article: Patriarch Alexy II and dialogue.
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- Catholic Insight
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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Part I: Russia and Ukraine
Russia
Moscow--It has been a longstanding wish of Pope John Paul II to heal the 1000-year-old rift between Rome and the Churches of the East, now known as the Orthodox Churches.
In the past several years, the Pope has visited several countries with Orthodox majorities, such as Armenia, Georgia and Romania, and has received warm welcomes from the Patriarchs there, even in Greece. But his wish to visit Moscow and meet with Patriarch Alexei II of the Russian Orthodox Church has not been granted. Hopes of such a visit were set back further in 2002 when the Vatican decided to restore the four Catholic "apostolic ...