Wikipedia's article on Catholic-Eastern Orthodox relations, read directly for this pass, which states that Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople jointly lifted the mutual excommunications of 1054 on 7 December 1965, in the Catholic-Orthodox Joint Declaration, read simultaneously at a public ceremony in Rome and at the Phanar in Istanbul, and that the lifting did not by itself restore full communion between the two churches.
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A community-edited tertiary reference, not peer-reviewed, but the 7 December 1965 date and the Catholic-Orthodox Joint Declaration's name are uncontroversial, widely reported twentieth-century ecclesiastical history with no live dispute over the date. NotesCited for the 7 December 1965 date on which Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I jointly lifted the mutual excommunications of 1054.
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PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic%E2%80%93Eastern_Orthodox_relations
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This source names Constantinople directly: "Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople jointly lifted the mutual excommunications of 1054 on 7 December 1965, in the Catholic-Orthodox Joint Declaration, read simultaneously at a..."
This source names Paul VI directly: "for this pass, which states that Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople jointly lifted the mutual excommunications of 1054 on 7 December 1965, in the Catholic-Orthodox..."
Rome, Cities This source names Rome directly: "simultaneously at a public ceremony in Rome and at the Phanar in Istanbul, and that the lifting did not by itself restore full communion between the two churches."
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