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Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) travels

each year to Rome for the feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul. The mem-

bers of the delegation, headed by a high-ranking bishop of the Ecumenical

Patriarchate, are welcomed in an official audience by the Pope and meet after-

wards with the representatives of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity.

On June 29, they attend the celebration of the Eucharist presided over by the

Pope in St Peter’s Cathedral in honor of the two Apostles. On November 30,

a similar delegation is sent each year to the Ecumenical Patriarchate by the

Pope to join the feast of the Apostle Andrew, who by tradition is considered

the founder of the Church of Constantinople. The delegation is received at

the Phanar by the Ecumenical Patriarch and invited to the liturgy celebrated

in St Georges’ Cathedral in memory of Apostle Andrew. The exchange of del-

egations shows the fraternal relationships existing nowadays between the

Church of Rome and the Church of Constantinople, whose leaders committed

themselves in the 1960s to the recovery of the visible unity between Orthodoxy

and Catholicism, which was progressively broken at the beginning of the sec-

ond millennium. The date of 1054 is regarded as the conventional year of the

schism between the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church. However,

their separation was a much longer process that started before the eleventh

century and continued in the centuries that followed, despite early attempts

at reconciliation, especially in the thirteenth (Council of Lyon, 1274) and four-

teenth centuries (Council of Ferrara-Florence 1438–1439).