Pope Benedict XVI has invited the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Alexy II to visit Rome in June for the festivities on the occasion of the Year of the St Apostle Paul, Radio Vatican said quoting Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza, the Archpriest of the Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls. By inviting the supreme hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church to the festivities, the Holy See seeks to facilitate the improvement of relations between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church, the cardinal said.
The Vatican officials also said Wednesday that the Holy See had issued a similar invitation to Bartholomew I, the Patriarch of Constantinople as well as to the heads of other Christians denominations.
The jubilee year dedicated to the St Apostle Paul and marking the 2,000th anniversary since his birth will begin June 28, 2008, and end June 29, 2009.
The exact year of the apostle's birth is not known but historians believe he was born somewhere between 7 and 10 AD.
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