{"id":560,"date":"2013-03-23T10:40:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T10:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxviews.com\/?p=339"},"modified":"2015-06-30T15:34:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T15:34:25","slug":"orthodox-spiritual-leader-bartholomew-to-attend-popes-francis-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox &#8220;spiritual leader&#8221; Bartholomew to attend pope&#8217;s Francis inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Orthodoxy is positioning itself firmly for the final push towards unification with Rome. Orthodox &#8220;first hierarch&#8221; (a term totally foreign to True Orthodoxy) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesacredpage.com\/2013\/03\/eastern-orthodox-patriarch-of.html\">Patriarch Bartholomew and 3 other bishops announced they would attend the inauguration of the new pope Francis<\/a>. It would be hard to not emphasize the significance of this event as this is unprecedented in the history of Orthodoxy.<\/p>\n<p>Quote: <em>&#8220;Tuesday will be a landmark day in the history of Christianity and ecumenical relations: the Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople will attend Pope Francis&#8217; installation Mass. It is the first time that such a thing has happened since the Great Western Schism in 1054&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So far, pope Francis has not spared any opportunity to &#8220;demonstrate&#8221; his piousness in exactly the same way the old pharisees did in a very public way &#8211; not away from the eyes of the many, in secret, like Orthodoxy teaches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Orthodoxy is positioning itself firmly for the final push towards unification with Rome. Orthodox &#8220;first hierarch&#8221; (a term totally foreign to True Orthodoxy) Patriarch Bartholomew and 3 other bishops announced they would attend the inauguration of the new pope Francis. It would be hard to not emphasize the significance of this event as this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}