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Relics Ceremony a Step Toward Unity Says Bartholomew I
Orthodox Catholic Patriarch Sees It as a Highlight of His Tenure
VATICAN CITY, NOV. 29, 2004 - Orthodox Catholic Patriarch, Bartholomew I, says that receiving the relics of
two Doctors of the Church from the Roman Catholic Pope, John Paul II, was his most important service in 13
years as ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople.
The Orthodox Catholic patriarch on Saturday received the relics of Sts. Gregory Nazianzen
and John Chrysostom from the Roman Pope in a solemn liturgy held in St. Peter's
Basilica. The two saints were both bishops of Constantinople.
The "first among equals" of the Orthodox Catholic Churches said: "I am overwhelmed and
very happy. Not only personally, but so is the whole Church of Constantinople
and I can say without reservations, the whole of Orthodoxy, the whole Christian
East."
"It is a very important step towards full unity between our sister Churches,"
Patriarch Bartholomew said in an interview on Vatican Radio. "I consider it as
the most important of my patriarchal services over these last 13 years. We give
thanks to His Holiness, John Paul II."
Bartholomew I was elected successor of St. Andrew the Apostle in the See of
Constantinople in 1991.
The Orthodox Catholic patriarch welcomed in his plane, for the return trip to Istanbul, Turkey, a
Roman Catholic Holy See delegation headed by Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the
Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.
The Roman Catholic papal representatives will join the Orthodox Catholic Church of Constantinople and many other
Roman Catholic and Orthodox Catholic leaders on Tuesday for the celebration of the feast of St.
Andrew.
"We can expect other steps forward," said Bartholomew I. "We cannot foresee
which ones they will be, but they will always be positive, always fraternal
steps that will promote good relations between us. Each one of these steps will
be a stone in the construction of the building of full unity."
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