Catholic World News News Feature
Russian Orthodox prelate to visit Pope? February 17, 2006
Metropolitan Filaret of Minsk will visit the Vatican next week and meet with Pope Benedict XVI on February 20, an Italian news service reports.
The Korazym web site says that Metropolitan Filaret will stop at the Vatican before proceeding to Bari, Italy, where he will pray at tomb of St. Nicholas. St. Nicholas of Myra is highly revered by the Russian Orthodox, and the city of Bari-- site of Italy's national Eucharistic Congress last May-- has become an important place for ecumenical exchanges.
The cool relations between the Holy See and the Moscow Patriarchate over the past several years have thawed somewhat since the election of Pope Benedict XVI. In an interview with the Italian magazine 30 Giorni last year, Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk, the top ecumenical officer of the Moscow Patriarchated, praised the new Pope for his commitment to exploring the shared intellectual traditions of Eastern and Western Christianity. The Russian prelate observed that the Church Fathers offer the basis for new ecumenical understanding.
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