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Nonetheless, tall (6 ft. 4 in.) Patriarch Athenagoras, a multilingual diplomat-priest, makes up in personal stature what he lacks in spiritual authority. "He is an outstanding churchman," says one Vatican official, "a modernizer in the same tradition as John XXIII...
Pope Paul VI is the 261st successor of St. Peter as Bishop of Rome; Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople is the 261st successor of St. Andrew, legendary founder of the church there. Once the two sees were equal in strength and power. Now, the Pope is infallible ruler of 558 million Roman Catholics. Athenagoras is somewhat grudgingly acknowledged as primate by the other patriarchates and churches of Orthodoxy (total membership: perhaps 150 million), but he exerts direct jurisdiction over scarcely 2,000,000 people, mainly in Turkey, the Dodecanese Islands...
...historic three-day trip to Israel and Jordan at the end of this week, Pope Paul VI plans to meet Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and first among equals of the world's Orthodox bishops. The encounter will be the first between a Pope and a Patriarch of Constantinople since the Council of Florence in 1439, when the breach between the eastern and western branches of Christendom-then 400 years old-was momentarily healed...
...They will meet in a spirit of Christian fraternity," said a Vatican official, meaning no more than that. After Paul announced, at the closing of the 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...
...business than to patch up their political enmity. He will be visiting lands where archaeologists are searching out man's past, some of them using the Bible as a guidebook (see SCIENCE), and at a time when Greek Orthodox pilgrims swarm into Old Jerusalem for their Christmas. Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople called the visit "a very progressive act"; Moslem Sheikh Abdullah Alayli of Lebanon more ambiguously declared: "It is like Christ coming back once again to chase the Pharisees from the Temple." But the Pope clearly intended his voyage to be nonpolitical: he will...