Eastern Orthodox at Pope's Funeral? (Vanity)

[Squire of St. Michael]

I'm curious to know which, if any, of the Eastern Orthodox Patriarchs will be attending the pope's funeral or sending delegations. If anyone has an insight, please post! Thanks.

[Lion in Winter]

Are any PROMINENT BAPTISTS ATTENDING???? Nope, not on any list That I saw.

[Lion in Winter]

Are any prominent DRUIDS or WICCANS going????

[Pyro7480]

From Monarchs, Presidents to Join Faithful at Pope Funeral:

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I

Greek Orthodox leader, Archbishop Christodoulos

Head of Armenian Apostolic Church Catholicos Garegin II

Turkey's Armenian Patriarch Mesrob II

Romania's Orthodox Patriarch Teoctist

Bulgaria's Orthodox Rousse Bishop Neofit and Vidin Bishop Domitian

Albanian religious leaders: ...Orthodox Archbishop Anastasios of the Orthodox community.

Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Abune Paulos

[Kolokotronis]

ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE
HOLY AND SACRED SYNOD

ANNOUNCEMENT

His all Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will travel to Rome on Thursday, April 7, in order to attend the funeral of the late Pope John Paul II, with whom he had met four times during the last decade and had collaborated for the advancement of relations between the two Churches.

The Ecumenical Patriarch will be accompanied by Their Eminences Metropolitan Gennadios of Italy, Metropolitan Kyrillos of Imvros and Tenedos, and Metropolitan Ioannis of Pergamos, representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the Joint Committee of the International Orthodox and Roman Catholic Dialogue, the Reverend Deacon Dositheos Anagnostopoulos and Mr. Nikolaos Maginas, Reporter-Photographer.

The Ecumenical Patriarch will return to Constantinople in the evening of Friday, April 8.

Patriarchate, April 5, 2005
Chief Secretariat of the Holy and Sacred Synod

[Pyro7480]

I only saw Jewish and Muslim leaders on the Yahoo! News list.

[LibFreeOrDie]

About 12 noon EDT, a large Orthodox delegation arrived to pay respects. (I was watching streaming video from Vatican TV.) Unfortunately, I do not recognize them, but it could have been the individuals listed in post # 5.

(They happened to be there the same time as the new leader of the Ukraine.)

[Lion in Winter]

I once went to a funeral of a fellow with whom I had some really serious disagreements. I went because my wife asked to go as she felt sorry for the man's long suffering wife. The fellow was a long time gambler and trouble maker in his neighborhood.

I have long been of the opinion that people go to funerals (and weddings for that matter) for various reasons.

And sometimes the reasons are NOT because they liked, agreed with, respected or even cared for the deceased.

I wonder if some of the people going to this funeral are going becasue they consider going to be to their ADVANTAGE POLITICALLY... or such.

What a shame.

[escapefromboston]

Is Jack Chick going???

[Lion in Winter]

How many Patriarchs does your Church have? 12, 13... 14? Just wondering. I think this is a smal number of them on your list, isn't it?

[Siobhan]

The Orthodox Patriarch Teoctist of the Roumanians will be in attendance.

[Lion in Winter]

Oh, yes... I forgot about him. LOL

[Kolokotronis]

Oh, I've known people to go to funerals for far less noble reasons than political advantage...like just making sure the *?/x#* is really dead.

With the EP, though, I suspect its a mixture of things, not including the foregoing. Given the state of relations between the Church of Rome and the Church of Constantinople and the canonical precedence of each, it would be unthinkable in this day for the EP not to go, quite aside from the fact that the two did get along quite well and each found in the other a willing interlocutor.

[Kolokotronis]

There are eight Orthodox Patriarchs, at Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Moscow, Serbia, Roumania and Bulgaria.

[Grey Ghost II]

I'm curious as to whether Bishop Fernando Areas Rifan has been invited to the funeral.

[Tantumergo]

"Are any prominent DRUIDS or WICCANS going????"

Yep - Rowan Williams was there.

[Salvation]

Yes, they did the Rite at the end of the Mass with the coffin. Incense, chanting...it was beautiful.

( LIVE THREAD ) Solemn Funeral Rites for Pope John Paul II (Resource Materials for those watching)

[Lion in Winter]

Who did a Rite? The Orthodox?

[Lion in Winter]

"Are any prominent DRUIDS or WICCANS going????" "Yep - Rowan Williams was there".

. softly... lol.

[Pyro7480]

Watch the video at the link on this thread: Prayers of Eastern Christian Churches at the Papal Funeral