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Pope Francis prays for ‘full unity’ with Copts

Pope Francis (R) and the Coptic Orthodox leader Tawadros II (C) exchange gifts during a private audience in the pontiff's library on May 10, 2013 at the Vatican. (AFP)
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Pope Francis on Friday prayed for “full unity” with the Coptic Orthodox Church as he received Patriarch of Alexandria Tawadros II for an historic visit in the latest sign of closer ties between the Catholic and Orthodox worlds.
“Our persevering prayer, our dialogue and the will to build communion day by day in mutual love will allow us to take important further steps towards full unity,” Francis told Coptic Orthodox leader Tawadros at their meeting in the Vatican.
“We long for the day when, in fulfillment of the Lord's desire, we will be able to communicate from the one chalice,” he said, acknowledging that there had been “centuries of mutual distrust” between their two Christian churches.
This was the first such meeting in 40 years.
Tawadros' predecessor Shenouda III visited the Vatican in 1973 to meet Pope Paul VI and the two had launched a process of dialogue between Catholics and Copts, and pope John Paul II also visited Shenouda in Egypt in 2000.

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