Easter coincides for both Churches on April 20, 2025 – What Patriarch Bartholomew said
A discussion on a joint celebration of Easter by Orthodox and Catholics has been opened due to the fact that 2025 coincides on the calendar for the two churches.
The event is the occasion to reopen the issue concerning both churches as in the past the Ecumenical Patriarchate has openly expressed the desire for a joint celebration.
As reminded by the correspondent of SKAI in Istanbul Manolis KostidisMr. Bartholomew had previously emphasized that Catholic and Orthodox Easter cannot be celebrated separately.
“The Ecumenical Patriarchate is making the opening and is waiting for the follow-up from the Vatican,” the correspondent noted, stressing that the issue can be discussed in 2025 when they are completed 1,700 years since the First Ecumenical Council in Nicaea, Bithynia.
Ecumenical Council in Bithynia
According to Manolis Kostidis, on the occasion of this event, the Ecumenical Patriarch wished, at some point, to celebrate a common Easter.
In fact, in the anniversary celebration that will be held in May 2025 in Nice, it is expected that Pope Francis of Rome will also attend, who himself last December, expressed for the first time his desire to establish a common celebration of Easter.
The message of the Patriarch:
“In this spirit, the wish is expressed unanimously that the common celebration of Easter next year under Eastern and Western Christianity will not be a mere happy coincidence, but the beginning of the establishment of a common date for its annual celebration, in accordance to the Easter of our Orthodox Church”, says the announcement issued after the end of the work of the Synod of the Hierarchy of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
The First Ecumenical Council, which had convened in 325 AD. in Nicaea, in today’s Turkey, an important religious center during the Byzantine era, had also dealt with the question of the common celebration of Easter, while its decisions are considered pivotal for the unity of the Churches, as it was there that the Symbol of Faith, the well-known ” I believe’ recognized by the Orthodox, Catholics and some Protestants.
Source: Skai
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