Posted on 06/22/2017 9:11:02 PM PDT by marshmallow
ome, June 22 (IANS/AKI) Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin on Wednesday said he will "in all probability" meet Russian President Vladimir Putin and the heads of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow in August.
"Yes, we are verifying whether this visit will take place. It has been planned for a long time and now all the conditions are in place," said the Vatican second-in-command.
"I believe I will meet President Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church's top officials because this needs to be a high-level visit," Parolin continued.
Parolin made the remarks to journalists on the sidelines of a conference at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University.
His planned visit to Moscow follows an historic meeting in Cuba between Pope Francis and head of the Russian Orthodox church, Patriarch Kirill, in February last year.
It was the first encounter in history between a Roman Catholic pope and a Russian Orthodox patriarch in the nearly 1,000 years since Eastern Orthodoxy split with Rome.
The papal meeting had finally become possible because the Orthodox church no longer felt that the Catholic church was trying to expand its influence in Russia and Ukraine, said representatives of Patriarch Kirill.
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