Catholic–Orthodox Joint Declaration of 1965

1965 withdrawal of mutual excommunications by the Catholic and Orthodox church leaders

The Catholic–Orthodox Joint Declaration of 1965 was read out on 7 December 1965 simultaneously at a public meeting of the Second Vatican Council in Rome and at a special ceremony in Istanbul. It withdrew the exchange of excommunications between prominent ecclesiastics in the Holy See and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, commonly known as the Great Schism of 1054. It did not end the schism but showed a desire for greater reconciliation between the two churches, represented by Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I.^[1]

Metropolitan Philaret (Voznesensky) of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia openly challenged the Patriarch's efforts at rapprochement with the Roman Catholic Church, claiming that it would inevitably lead to heresy, in his 1965 epistle to the Patriarch.^[2]

References

^ "Joint Catholic-Orthodox Declaration of his Holiness Pope Paul VI and the Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I". La Santa Sede (Vatican). 7 December 1965.
^ Metropolitan Philaret (December 1965). "A Protest to Patriarch Athenagoras: On the Lifting of the Anathemas of 1054". Orthodox Christian Information Center.

External links

Catholic-Orthodox joint declaration of 1965 at from the Vatican site

Second Vatican Council

Documents

Constitutions	Sacrosanctum concilium (Sacred Liturgy) Lumen gentium (The Church) Dei verbum (Divine Revelation) Gaudium et spes (The Church and the World)
Decrees	Inter mirifica (Media) Orientalium Ecclesiarum (Eastern Catholics) Unitatis redintegratio (Ecumenism) Christus Dominus (Role of Bishops) Perfectae cartatis (Renewal of Religious Life) Optatam totius (Formation of Priests) Apostolicam actuositatem (Role of the Laity) Ad gentes (Missions) Presbyterorum ordinis (Role of Priests)
Declarations	Gravissimum educationis (Christian Education) Nostra aetate (Relations with non-Christians) Dignitatis humanae (Religious Liberty)

People

Popes	John XXIII Paul VI
Moderators	Leo Joseph Suenens Gregorio Pietro Agagianian Julius Döpfner Giacomo Lercaro
Council of Presidents	Eugène Tisserant Achille Liénart Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni Norman Gilroy Francis Spellman Enrique Pla y Deniel Josef Frings Ernesto Ruffini Antonio Caggiano Bernardus Johannes Alfrink
Cardinal Presidents of commissions	Alfredo Ottaviani Paolo Marella Amleto Giovanni Cicognani Benedetto Aloisi Masella Pietro Ciriaci Valerio Valeri Gregorio Pietro Agagianian Arcadio Larraona Saralegui Giuseppe Pizzardo Fernando Cento
Other council leaders	Augustin Bea Gustavo Testa Alberto di Jorio Pericle Felici