Catholic World News News Feature
Papal Greetings to Syrian Patriarch September 22, 1999
VATICAN (CWNews.com) -- Pope John Paul II sent his "fraternal greetings" to the Syrian Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, Mar Ignatius Zakka Iwas, as he met with a group of Syrian Orthodox in Rome on September 22.
The Pope met with the Syrian pilgrims at the conclusion of his regular Wednesday public audience, and used the occasion to send his regards to the patriarch, who was elected to that role in 1980. Patriarch Mar Ignatius Zakka Iwas resides in Damascus.
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