{"id":252361,"date":"2019-09-19T00:46:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T21:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=252361"},"modified":"2019-09-19T00:46:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T21:46:27","slug":"patriarch-bartholomew-meets-with-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/patriarch-bartholomew-meets-with-pope-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriarch Bartholomew meets with Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople met with Pope Francis on Tuesday, Vatican News reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The meeting between the Pope and the Patriarch was held in \u201ca fraternal atmosphere\u201d, according to a communiqu\u00e9 from the Holy See Press Office.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople also had lunch together at the Casa Santa Marta with their respective delegations.<\/p>\n<p>The Council of Cardinals is holding its 31<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0meeting, and the Secretary, Bishop Marcello Semeraro, invited the Patriarch to greet participants ahead of his encounter with the Pope.<\/p>\n<p>In his brief remarks, Patriarch Bartholomew talked about the value placed on synodality in the Eastern Orthodox Church.<\/p>\n<p>He then assured the Cardinals of his prayers.<\/p>\n<p>The Ecumenical Patriarch is accompanied by Metropolitan Bartholomew of Smyrna, and his patriarchal deacons Aetios Nikiforos and Panagiotis Grafiadelis.<\/p>\n<p>Photography courtesy of Vatican News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople met with Pope Francis on Tuesday, Vatican News reports. The meeting between the Pope and the Patriarch was held in \u201ca fraternal atmosphere\u201d, according to a communiqu\u00e9 from the Holy See Press Office. Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople also had lunch together at the Casa Santa Marta with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":252277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[67,4767,69,10386,20808],"class_list":["post-252361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autocephalous-orthodox-churches","tag-ecumenical-patriarch","tag-ecumenism","tag-meeting","tag-orthodox-news","tag-popes-francis"],"better_featured_image":{"id":252277,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":750,"height":422,"file":"2019\/09\/cq5dam.thumbnail.cropped.750.422-1.jpeg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"cq5dam.thumbnail.cropped.750.422-1-360x360.jpeg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/cq5dam.thumbnail.cropped.750.422-1-360x360.jpeg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":252361,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/cq5dam.thumbnail.cropped.750.422-1.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252361\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=252361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252361\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252277\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=252361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=252361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=252361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}