Ecumenical church leaders among mourners at papal funeral
April 28, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople led a delegation of prelates from the Ecumenical Patriarchate to the funeral of Pope Francis.
Metropolitan Antonijj of Volokolamsk, the chief ecumenical officer of the Moscow patriarchate, led a Russian Orthodox delegation.
Among other prominent Christian dignitaries were:
- Syrian Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius Ephrem II of Antioch;
- Aremenian Apostolic Catholics Karekin II;
- Patriarch Awa III of the Assyrian Church of the East;
- Bishop Henrik Stubkjaer, president of the Lutheran World Federation.
With the post of Archbishop of Canterbury temporarily vacant, Bishop Stephen Cottrell of York represented the Church of England.
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