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Article: Papal visit first in 1000 years (Romania).(Brief Article)
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- Catholic Insight
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- July 1, 1999
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Bucharest--On May 7 Pope John Paul II began an historic visit to Romania, the first time a Pope has visited a predominantly Orthodox country in a thousand years.
The Pope intended that this visit would move the Western and Eastern branches of Christianity, which separated in 1054, closer together. He has almost certainly succeeded in doing so.
John Paul's predecessor, Pope Paul VI, broke the ice between the Catholics of the West and the Byzantine Orthodox in the East of Europe when he visited the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople, Athanagoras I, in 1966, following the close of the Vatican Council in 1965. Since that time, delegations from Rome and ...