Heads of the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches have met for the first time as Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill, primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, issued a joint declaration at their meeting in Cuba on 12 February 2016.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) has issued a statement celebrating ‘this important meeting of the two Church leaders as a great step forward in healing the schism between Western and Eastern Christianity’.
The joint declaration between Pope Francis and Patriarch Krill is available on the Vatican radio website.
You can read the full response from the WCC on its website.
