Visit of Pope Leo XIV to the Ecumenical Patriarchate and to Nicaea on the occasion of the 1700th Anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council

The Ecumenical Patriarchate expresses its joy at the forthcoming visit of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV of Rome to Türkiye, in response to the expressed wish and invitation of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to commemorate together the historic 1700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council convened in Nicaea.

The two Primates will travel to Nicaea of Bithynia on the 28th of November, while His Holiness the Pope will officially visit the See of the Ecumenical Patriarchate at the Phanar on the 29th and 30th of November, to participate in the feast of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called,  Founder of the Church of Constantinople.