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Orthodox leader says he’d like to meet with Pope<\/a><\/p>\n

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The spiritual leader of the world’s 200 million-plus Orthodox Christians said Thursday that he is eager to meet with Pope Benedict XVI sometime in the coming year in an effort to heal the long-standing rift between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches.<\/p>\n

Visiting this heavily Greek community northwest of Tampa for the annual Feast of the Epiphany celebration, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I told reporters that the pope plans an official visit sometime this year to his headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey.<\/p>\n

"We are in very good relationships with the present pope, Benedict XVI, and I’m in the very happy position to announce to you that we are going to restart the dialogue on the international global level between the Orthodox church and the Roman Catholic church," Bartholomew said in Greek through an interpreter, Archbishop Demetrios, who is primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in America.<\/p>\n

The last official talks between two churches five years ago broke off without an agreement on theological issues that have divided them for almost 1,000 years.<\/p>\n

Bartholomew had received a warm reception from the Vatican after inviting the pope to Turkey for the Feast of St. Andrew in November. But they were subtly rebuffed when the government of primarily Muslim Turkey, instead of approving the visit, issued its own invitation to Benedict for an unspecified date in 2006.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s the 100th anniversary of the annual cross-diving in Tarpon Springs – a very intersting community north of Tampa. Go if you ever have a chance. Here’s the web page dedicated to the 100th anniversary celebration.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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