With the Great Jubilee 2000, Pope John Paul II continued his commitment
to dialogue with Orthodox Christians. Here is a list of meetings
held by the Holy Father since 2000 with leaders of Orthodox Churches
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| Ecumenical dialogue between
Catholics and Orthodox: commitment of the Holy Father |
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| January
18, 2000 |
Rome - Opening of the Holy Door
at St Paul's outside the Walls |
| February
25, 2000 |
Cairo - ecumenical meeting at the
new Cathedral of Our Lady of Egypt |
| March
23 2000 |
Jerusalem- interreligious meeting
at the Notre Dame Pontifical Institute |
| March
25, 2000 |
Jerusalem - greetings to Armenian-Orthodox
Patriarch, His Beatitude Torkom II Manoukian |
| June
30, 2000 |
Note from the Congregation for
the Doctrine of the Faith on "Sister Churches" |
| May
4, 2001 |
Athens - Courtesy visit to His
Beatitude Christodoulos Archbishop of Athens and all Greece |
| May
4, 2001 |
Athens - Joint Declaration on the
Christian roots of Europe - Areopagus of Athens |
| May
5, 2001 |
Damascus - Ecumenical meeting -
Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary |
| May
6, 2001 |
Damascus Meeting with clergy, religious
and active laity, Orthodox and Catholic, at the Syro-Orthodox
Cathedral |
| May
7 2001 |
Qunaytra - Prayer for Peace at
the Greek Orthodox Church |
| June
24 2001 |
Kiev - Meeting with representatives
of the all-Ukraine Council of Churches and Religious Organisations |
| September
26, 2001 |
Yerevan - Ecumenical Service at
the new Apostolic Cathedral of St Gregory the Illuminator |
| September
27, 2001 |
Etchmiadzin - Joint declaration
of His Holiness Pope John Paul II and His Holiness Karekin
II, Apostolic Cathedral |
| May
24, 2001 |
Sofia - Courtesy visit to H. H.
Patriarch Maxim and the Holy Synod at the Patriarchal Palace |
| May
25, 2001 |
Rila - Pilgrimage to the monastery
of St John of Rila |
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