{"id":47037,"date":"2020-02-13T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2020\/02\/13\/pope-i-hope-to-meet-the-patriarch-of-moscow-soon\/"},"modified":"2020-02-13T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T16:47:00","slug":"pope-i-hope-to-meet-the-patriarch-of-moscow-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2020\/02\/13\/pope-i-hope-to-meet-the-patriarch-of-moscow-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope: \"I hope to meet the Patriarch of Moscow soon\""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>foreign minister of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Moscow <\/strong>visited the pope in the Vatican. The tone of the meeting was very cordial.<\/p>\n<p>'<em>I'm happy.<\/em>'<\/p>\n<p>They are in Rome<strong> to commemorate the four years since the pope's encounter with Russian Patriarch, Kirill<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWelcome, Brother Hilarion. It's nice to see you here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/em>During their time together, they agreed for further collaboration to help war-wounded children in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>After meeting behind closed doors, before leaving, the pope gave him a message for the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church. <\/p>\n<p><em>Many greetings to Patriarch Kirill.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Your Holiness.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to meet him soon.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Your Holiness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The pope and the Patriarch of Moscow have only met once<\/strong>. It was four years ago Feb. 12, 2016, on \u201cneutral\u201d territory in Havana, Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>The pope wants to boost relations with the Russian Orthodox Church, which traditionally keeps its distance from the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>The situation is complex because Moscow has also broken relations with the ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, which nevertheless maintains a great friendship with Pope Francis.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 13, 2020. He has met at the Vatican with Hilarion, foreign minister of the Russian Orthodox Patriarchate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gPbtDxeTTNc","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpatriarcarussoeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpatriarcarussoint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}