Really? They haven't meet in 1000 years? I'm honestly kind of surprised, considering the vast number of times that a Pope and a Russian Orthodox Patriarch could have met over those years.
*head desk*
Can we please stop reporting that the Patriarch of Moscow is the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Now he is head of the Russian Orthodox Church, but that's not the same thing.
And Pope Paul VI met the then Patriarch of Constantinople in 1964.
That's what I said though? I said Russian Orthodox Patriarch, not Eastern Orthodox or Greek Orthodox. I know the Patriarch of Constantinople is higher ranking within the greater Orthodox tradition (technically), and that the Popes have met with them before. I'm just surprised that the Patriarch of Moscow hasn't met any of the Popes before. I would have thought John Paul II would have met the Patriarch, at least.
