Posted on 04/07/2005 6:14:48 PM PDT by Squire of St. Michael
Are any PROMINENT BAPTISTS ATTENDING???? Nope, not on any list That I saw.
Are any prominent DRUIDS or WICCANS going????
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
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
I only saw Jewish and Muslim leaders on the Yahoo! News list.
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.)
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.
Is Jack Chick going???
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?
The Orthodox Patriarch Teoctist of the Roumanians will be in attendance.
Oh, yes... I forgot about him. LOL
There are eight Orthodox Patriarchs, at Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Moscow, Serbia, Roumania and Bulgaria.
I'm curious as to whether Bishop Fernando Areas Rifan has been invited to the funeral.
"Are any prominent DRUIDS or WICCANS going????"
Yep - Rowan Williams was there.
( LIVE THREAD ) Solemn Funeral Rites for Pope John Paul II (Resource Materials for those watching)
Who did a Rite? The Orthodox?
. softly... lol.
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