{"id":80923,"date":"2025-09-16T17:33:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=80923"},"modified":"2025-09-16T17:39:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:39:39","slug":"the-patriarch-of-armenia-meets-with-pope-leo-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2025\/09\/16\/the-patriarch-of-armenia-meets-with-pope-leo-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Patriarch of Armenia meets with Pope Leo for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pope Leo XIV traveled once again to Castel Gandolfo. There, he received Karekin II, the Patriarch of Armenia. This was the first time the two have held an audience together.<strong><br><br><\/strong>During the meeting, the patriarch invited the pontiff to visit Armenia and emphasized the need for peace. Both leaders agreed that peace must be based on justice.<br><br>The audience took place at Villa Barberini, the papal residence which the pontiff had moved to the night before.<br><br>Karekin II had previously met with the three other popes: St. John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis, who even traveled to Armenia in 2016 and recognized the country as \u201cthe first Christian people in history.\u201d<br><br><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I cherish recalling here the decisive impetus given to the intensification of relations and the strengthening of dialogue between our two Churches in recent times by Their Holinesses Vasken I and Karekin I, by Saint John Paul II, and by Benedict XVI.<\/em><br>With this new meeting, Pope Leo XIV and Karekin II once again underline the importance of dialogue and cooperation between Churches, amidst an international situation marked by tensions and conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BAM<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV traveled once again to Castel Gandolfo. There, he received Karekin II, the Patriarch of Armenia. This was the first time the two have held an audience together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":80920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/AYCmVjNpRAk","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bctvpatriarcaarmenoeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bctvpatriarcaarmenoint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80923"}],"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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80925,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80923\/revisions\/80925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}