Word: duprey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vatican Council's second session last month, that he intended to visit the Holy Land, the Patriarch suggested that the trip be turned into a "summit conference" of the world's Christian leaders. The Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity responded by sending Father Pierre Duprey to Istanbul with a letter for Athenagoras explaining that Paul was going as a pilgrim to pray at Christian shrines, but also expressing the Pope's willingness to meet the Patriarch and establish a friendship...
...Duprey returned with the news that Athenagoras was eager for the meeting, although as spokesman for Orthodoxy he had first to get the approval of the other patriarchates and autocephalous churches. By last week Athenagoras felt that the consensus favored his going, dispatched two prelates to the Vatican to work out final details of the encounter...