Rome and Constantinople lift 1054 anathemas
About this date: The schism was not healed by this act alone.
Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I, with his synod, remove the memory of the 1054 excommunications from their churches; this does not restore full communion.
People
- Athenagoras I
- Paul VI
Primary sources
The Pope and Patriarch with his synod declare that they:
The joint declaration explicitly removes the sentences of excommunication associated with 1054; its next paragraph acknowledges unresolved differences.
remove both from memory and from the midst of the Church the sentences of excommunication
Passage context and translation
The declaration removes the memory of the sentences associated with 1054 and commits them to oblivion. Paragraph 5 expressly acknowledges that this gesture does not resolve the remaining Catholic-Orthodox differences; full communion is described as a hoped-for goal.
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