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In memoriam Revd Dr William Rusch

21 Jan 2025

On 16 January 2025, the Lutheran Pastor, Dr William Rusch, passed away. The Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity...

In Memoriam Revd Ronald G. Roberson, CSP

21 Jan 2025

The Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity has learned with sadness of the death in New York on 19 January 2025 of Fr...

Visit of Ecumenical Church Leaders Group from East Anglia, England

21 Jan 2025

The leadership group of Churches Together in Norfolk and Waveney in the East of England undertook a joint pilgrimage to...

2025 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in Rome

17 Jan 2025

As in other years, the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in Rome will be celebrated from 18-25 January. The Holy...

Visit of Cardinal Koch to Prague

14 Jan 2025

From 7 to 9 January 2025, Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, visited Prague...

Meeting of the Augustana Working Group in Wittenberg

18 Dec 2024

The second meeting [EN] [DE] of the Concordia Lutheran-Catholic Augustana Working Group took place in...

Christmas Greetings from the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity

23 Dec 2024

Do not be afraid; for behold, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For today in...

Pope Francis receives new leadership of World Methodist Council

17 Dec 2024

On 16 December 2024, Pope Francis received in private audience the new President of the World Methodist Council, Bishop...

Religious of the Focolare Movement at the DPUC

17 Dec 2024

On 16th December Mgr Usma Gómez, Head of the Western Section, received a group of 12 religious from 11 different Orders...

Dialogue with Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church

16 Dec 2024

On Thursday, 12 December 2024, the 25th meeting of the Joint Theological Commission for Dialogue between the Catholic...

Dialogue with Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church

16 Dec 2024

The Joint International Commission for Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church...

Dialogue with Mar Thoma Church

16 Dec 2024

On 9 December, the second meeting of the bilateral dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Malankara Mar Thoma...

Pope Francis receives a delegation from the Rom Evangelical Baptist Mission

12 Dec 2024

On 12 December, Pope Francis received in a private audience a delegation from the Rom Evangelical Baptist Mission...

DPCU at the Caminhada Sinodal III - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

12 Dec 2024

On 11 December, Msgr Usma Gómez, Head of the Western Section, delivered a speech at the programme Caminhada Sinodal III...

Annual Anglican-Catholic Informal Talks

9 Dec 2024

On 3 and 4 December 2024, representatives of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity and the steering committees of...

Old Catholic Archbishop Wallet visits DPCU

5 Dec 2024

On 3 December 2024, the Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht, the Right Reverend Bernd Wallet, was received by Cardinal...

In Memoriam Bishop emeritus Christian Krause

4 Dec 2024

On 28 November 2024, Bishop emeritus Dr. h.c. Christian Krause passed away in Wolfenbüttel (Germany)....

Delegation of the Holy See participates in the Patronal Feast of the Ecumenical Patriarchate

2 Dec 2024

As part of the traditional exchange of delegations for the feasts of their Patron Saints, on June 29 in Rome for the...

Board of Methodist Ecumenical Office visits Dicastery

29 Nov 2024

On Wednesday 27 November, the oversight board of the Methodist Ecumenical Office Rome (MEOR) – known as The Forum –...

Third Session of Salvation Army-Roman Catholic Informal Conversations

27 Nov 2024

The third session of the current series of Informal Conversations between the Salvation Army and the Catholic Church...

Second session of the “Ut unum sint” Diploma

18 Nov 2024

The second session of the Ut Unum Sint Diploma for 2024-2025, organised by the Institute of Ecumenical Studies of the...

Conference in Vienna on Eastern Catholic Churches and Ecumenism

15 Nov 2024

On 14 and 15 November, an international conference entitled ‘The Place of the Eastern Catholic Churches in the Communio...

Synod of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church visits DPCU

13 Nov 2024

On Monday, 11 November, the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity received a visit from the members of the Episcopal...

The Holy Father receives the Synod of the Mar Thoma Church

12 Nov 2024

On Monday 11 November, Pope Francis received in private audience the members of the Episcopal Synod of the Malankara...

Continuation of the dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Communion of Protestant Churches in Europe

11 Nov 2024

On 11 November 2024, the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity (DPCU) and the Communion of Protestant...

New book on the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East

11 Nov 2024

On 11 November 1994, Pope John Paul II and Catholicos Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV, representing the Catholic Church and the...

Inclusion of Isaac of Nineveh in the Roman Martyrology

11 Nov 2024

On Saturday 9 November 2024, on the occasion of the visit of His Holiness Mar Awa III and of the members of the Joint...

Pope Francis meets Catholicos Patriarch Mar Awa III

11 Nov 2024

On Saturday, 9 November, the Holy Father Francis and His Holiness Mar Awa III, Catholicos Patriarch of the Assyrian...

Academic act for the 30th anniversary of the Common Christological Declaration between the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East

11 Nov 2024

On Thursday, 7 November, an academic act titled "We Confess One Lord" [video below] was held at...

Theological dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East

11 Nov 2024

From 6 to 9 November 2024, the sixteenth plenary session of the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue...

DPCU represented at annual Conference of Secretaries of Christian World Communions

8 Nov 2024

Archbishop Flavio Pace, Secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, assisted by Reverend Andrzej...

DPCU represented at the 25th anniversary of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification

4 Nov 2024

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (JDDJ), an ecumenical...

‘We Confess One Lord’ - 30th anniversary of the Common Christological Declaration between the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East

4 Nov 2024

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Common Christological Declaration between the Catholic Church and the...

In memoriam His Beatitude Mor Baselios Thomas I

4 Nov 2024

The Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity has learned with sorrow the news of the death of His Beatitude Mor Baselios...

Ecumenism in the document ‘For a synodal Church: communion, participation, mission’

28 Oct 2024

The final document of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, entitled "For a Synodal Church:...

Pope Francis receives the Fraternal Delegates to the Synod

22 Oct 2024

On Monday, 21 October, in the Auletta Paolo VI, the Holy Father received in private audience the Fraternal Delegates...

Meeting to prepare materials for 2026 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

21 Oct 2024

The international committee jointly sponsored by the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity (DPCU) and the World...

In Memoriam Bishop Donal Murray

21 Oct 2024

The Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity has learned with sadness of the death on 13 October 2024 of Bishop Donal...

Ecumenical Group from Sweden visits DPCU

14 Oct 2024

As part of the courses in Canon Law / Church Law organised by the "Fjellstedtska Foundation" in Uppsala, an...

Meeting of the Synodal Study Group No. 10

14 Oct 2024

On 12 October 2024, the Synodal Study Group responsible for reflecting on ecumenical issues convened in the...

Ecumenical Prayer Vigil on the occasion of the Synod 2024

14 Oct 2024

An Ecumenical Prayer Vigil took place on Friday, 11 October, in the Square of the Roman Protomartyrs at the Vatican,...

Press Conference with Fraternal Delegates to Synod 2024

14 Oct 2024

On 10 October, a press conference [video below] was held at the Holy See Press Office, focusing on the ecumenical...

The Centro Melantone Ecumenical Summer Course visits DPCU

25 Sep 2024

On 17 September 2024, the Centro Melantone Ecumenical Summer Course visited the Dicastery for Promoting Christian...

Cardinal Koch as a guest at the 10th Ecumenical Confessional Congress

2 Sep 2024

Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity (DPCU), spoke on 31 August 2024 at the...

Lutherans from Germany and Finland visit DPCU

12 Sep 2024

On 12 September 2024, the Reverend Harald W. Losch, Pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria and...

Ecumenical panel discussion on the document The Bishop of Rome

8 Oct 2024

On the occasion of the Synod of Bishops on Synodality and the publication in French by Éditions du Cerf of the document...

International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission meeting in USA

4 Oct 2024

The steering committee of the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission (IARCCUM) met in...

Delegation of the Holy Father at the Re-consecration of the Cathedral of Etchmiadzin (Armenia) and Blessing of the Holy Myron

3 Oct 2024

His Holiness Pope Francis has appointed His Eminence Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Vice-Dean of the College of Cardinals...

Meeting of the Saint Irenaeus Joint Orthodox-Catholic Working Group in Paderborn

3 Oct 2024

The Saint Irenaeus Joint Orthodox-Catholic Working Group convened for its 20th anniversary meeting from...

Methodist-Roman Catholic International Commission meeting in Korea

3 Oct 2024

The 2024 plenary meeting of the twelfth phase of the Methodist-Catholic dialogue commission, MERCIC (Methodist‒Roman...

Academic Act on ‘Canon law, ecumenism and synodality’

26 Sep 2024

On Tuesday 24 September at 6 p.m. an academic act on ‘Canon law, ecumenism and synodality’ was held at the Angelicum...

Congress in Athens of the Society for the Law of the Eastern Churches

23 Sep 2024

From 16 to 20 September 2024 the 26th International Congress of the Society for the Law of the Eastern Churches was...

Sixth cycle of the diploma "Ut unum sint"

16 Sep 2024

In October 2024 the sixth cycle of the Diploma "Ut unum sint" will be inaugurated, a course of...

DPCU at the Philippines School of Ecumenism

16 Sep 2024

Msgr. Usma Gómez, Head of office of the Western Section of the DPUC, participated in the first ‘School of Ecumenism’...

“Listening to the West”: New book on Synodality in Western Ecclesial Traditions

16 Sep 2024

"How many important things unite us! If we really believe in the abundantly free working of the Holy...

First Plenary Session of the New Mandate of the Joint Working Group

6 Sep 2024

This first plenary of the 11th mandate (2023-2030) of the Joint Working Group (JWG) between the Roman Catholic Church...

The DPCU represented at the World Methodist Conference

21 Aug 2024

The twenty-second World Methodist Conference took place in Gothenburg, Sweden, from 14 to 18 August 2024. The...

Ecumenical participation in International Methodist Youth Seminar

21 Aug 2024

From 9 to 12 August 2024, young adults from around the world participated in the International Methodist Youth Seminar,...

In Memoriam Bishop Mark Santer

20 Aug 2024

The Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity has learned with sadness of the death on 14 August 2024, in his...

In Memoriam Pastor Paolo Ricca

20 Aug 2024

The Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity has learned of the death of Pastor Paolo Ricca, of the Waldensian...

Study visit of Catholic priests to Kerala

19 Aug 2024

As part of the reciprocal study visits organized by the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue...

Catholic Pentecostal International Dialogue in Portugal

15 Jul 2024

The Catholic Pentecostal International Dialogue held its fourth meeting of the seventh phase of dialogue in Lisbon,...

DPCU at the Forum on Christian Unity and Renewal (Augusta, GA, USA)

1 Jul 2024

From 26 to 29 June, Msgr Juan Usma Gómez attended the “Forum on Christian Unity and Renewal”(Augusta, Georgia, USA), a...

Delegation from the Ecumenical Patriarchate for the Feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul

1 Jul 2024

As part of the traditional exchange of delegations for the respective feasts of the Patron Saints, the Holy Apostles...

Election of the new Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Daniil

1 Jul 2024

On 30 June 2024, the Patriarchal Ecclesiastical Electoral Council of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church – Patriarchate of...

Disciples of Christ-Catholic International Commision for Dialogue

26 Jun 2024

From 21-25 June, the International Dialogue Commission Between the 'Disciples of Christ' and the Catholic...

Pope Francis receives delegation from the Lutheran World Federation

24 Jun 2024

On 20 June, Pope Francis received in audience a delegation from the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), led by the new LWF...

Greeting by DPCU to the Council Meeting of the Lutheran World Federation

21 Jun 2024

From 13 to 18 June 2024, the new Council of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) met in Chavannes-de-Bogis near...

DPCU represented at the inaugural lecture by Professor Dr Christian Stoll

5 Jun 2024

On 4 June 2024, Professor Dr Christian Stoll gave his inaugural lecture at the Faculty of Theology in...

"The Bishop of Rome" – A new document of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity

13 Jun 2024

The Dicastery Promoting Christian Unity is pleased to publish with the approval of Pope Francis its new document The...

Pope Francis receives Catholicos Aram I

13 Jun 2024

On 12 June, the Holy Father received in private audience His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic...

Publication of the document “The Bishop of Rome”

10 Jun 2024

On Thursday 13 June, a new document of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity (DPCU) has been published, entitled...

Coordinating Committee of the International Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue

7 Jun 2024

The Coordinating Committee of the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church...

Pope Francis greets representatives of the Bulgarian Orthodox community

30 May 2024

On 29 May 2024, during the General Audience, Pope Francis greeted some representatives of the Bulgarian Orthodox...

Metropolitan Timotej celebrates a Moleben at the Basilica of St. Clement

24 May 2024

On 24 May, a delegation from the Macedonian Orthodox Church - Archdiocese of Ohrid visited Rome on the occasion of the...

Bulgarian Orthodox delegation in Rome for the Feast of Saints Cyril and Methodius

23 May 2024

On 23 May, on the occasion of the Bulgarian National Feast of Saints Cyril and Methodius, the new Secretary of the...

Pope Francis receives Metropolitan Filüksinos Yusuf Ҫetin

3 Jun 2024

On 1 June the Holy Father received in private audience Metropolitan Filüksinos Yusuf Ҫetin, Patriarchal Vicar of the...

Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission meets in Strasbourg

20 May 2024

The 2024 plenary meeting of the third phase of the Anglican-Catholic dialogue commission, ARCIC (Anglican‒Roman...

Texts for 2025 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

27 May 2024

The Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity [DPCU] is pleased to publish the texts for the Week of Prayer for...

Pilgrims from Hong Kong Christian Council visit Rome

24 May 2024

As part of the celebration of its 70th anniversary, the Hong Kong Christian Council organised an ecumenical pilgrimage...

Vice-President of World Methodist Council visits Rome

24 May 2024

The Vice-President of the World Methodist Council, Mrs Gillian Kingston, visited Rome from 21 to 24 May. Mrs Kingston,...

Audience with a delegation of the ‘Apostoliki Diakonia’

21 May 2024

On 16 May 2024, the Holy Father received in private audience a delegation of the ‘Apostoliki Diakonia’ of the Church of...

Ecumenical conference on synodality in Louvain-la-Neuve

21 May 2024

From 14 to 16 May 2024, an international conference on synodality was held in Louvain-la-Neuve entitled “The Synodal...

Acta Œcumenica 2023

21 May 2024

Acta Œcumenica (no. 5/2023) is available online on this website and in hard copy from the Libreria editrice vaticana...

Ecumenical Prayer on the Feast of the Ascension

13 May 2024

On 9 May 2024 an ecumenical service was celebrated in the Lutheran Christ Church in Rome to commemorate the...

Day of Friendship between Copts and Catholics

13 May 2024

On the occasion of the 11th Day of Friendship between Copts and Catholics, celebrated every year on 10 May in memory of...

Participants in the “Gathering in the Holy Spirit” visit the DPCU

10 May 2024

On 8 May, at the DPCU, Archbishop Flavio Pace, together with Msgr. Juan Usma, received the participants of the...

Primates of the Anglican Communion meet in Rome

7 May 2024

The 23rd Primates’ Meeting of the Anglican Communion took place in Rome from 29 April to 3 May 2024. The Primates’...

Pope Francis receives the Archbishop of Uppsala

7 May 2024

On 2 May 2024, Pope Francis received the Lutheran Archbishop of Uppsala and Primate of the Church of Sweden, Most Rev....

Malines Conversations Group Meeting in Helsinki

2 May 2024

The Malines Conversations Group, an unofficial theological dialogue of Catholic and Anglican theologians, met in...

DPCU represented at Consultation Advancing Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification

30 Apr 2024

Representatives from five World Communions associated with the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification...

Representatives of the New Apostolic Church visit DPCU

24 Apr 2024

On 24 April, Peter Johanning, the contact person of the Department for Ecumenism of the New Apostolic Church...

Seventh session of the “Ut unum sint” Diploma

22 Apr 2024

The seventh session of the Diploma Ut unum sint 2023-2024 organized by the Institute of Ecumenical...

Chairwoman of the German National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation visits DPCU

16 Apr 2024

On 16 April 2024, the new Chairwoman of the German National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation...

Message from Pope Francis to the 4th Global Gathering of the Global Christian Forum

19 Apr 2024

On Thursday, April 18, 2024, during the solemn dinner commemorating the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Global...

Catholic Participation in the 4th Global Gathering of the Global Christian Forum

19 Apr 2024

The 4th Global Gathering of the Global Christian Forum took place from April 16 to 19, 2024, in Accra, Ghana, under the...

Revd Paul Tché, Disciples of Christ, meets with Bishop Farrell and Archbishop Pace

15 Apr 2024

On 13 April, Revd Paul Tché, President of the Disciples Ecumenical Consultative Council (DECC), met with Bishop Brian...

Easter greetings of the Dicastery

26 Mar 2024

Why do you seek the living one among the dead? He is not here, but he has been raised (Lc 24,...

Pope Francis receives Frère Matthew of Taizé

25 Mar 2024

On Monday 18 March, the Holy Father received in private audience the new Prior of Taizé, Frère Matthew, and some...

Cardinal Koch at the anniversary of Pro Oriente

21 Mar 2024

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Pro Oriente Foundation, which was founded in 1964 by Cardinal Franz...

Meeting of the Academic Advisory Board of the Johann Adam Möhler Institute for Ecumenics

18 Mar 2024

On 13 and 14 March 2024, the Academic Advisory Board of the Johann Adam Möhler Institute for Ecumenics met in...

In memoriam of His Holiness Patriarch Neofit

15 Mar 2024

It is with great sorrow that the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity has learned the news of the death of His...

ARCIC Drafting Meeting in London

14 Mar 2024

On 7 and 8 March 2024, the drafting group of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International...

Theological symposium in honour of Cardinal Koch

11 Mar 2024

From 6 to 8 March, a symposium in honour of Cardinal Kurt Koch was held at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas...

Archbishop Vanags from Latvia visits DPCU

6 Mar 2024

On 5 March 2024, Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity (DPCU), received the...

Visit by American Methodist Bishop Delegation

5 Mar 2024

On 5 March 2024, a delegation of ten bishops from American Methodist churches visited the Dicastery for Promoting...

Augustana Working Group

4 Mar 2024

On March 1, 2024, Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity...

Visit of Revd Tara Curlewis, WCRC Ecumenical Officer

28 Feb 2024

On Feb. 27, Revd Tara Curlewis, Ecumenical Liaison Officer of the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) and...

Cardinal Kurt Koch meets His Beatitude Stefan at Santa Marta

27 Feb 2024

On 26 February, Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, met with His Beatitude...

Change of Secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity

27 Feb 2024

H.E. Bishop Brian Farrell, after 21 years of dedicated service as Secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian...

Greeting from Cardinal Koch for a meeting of Lutheran and Catholic bishops in Uppsala

26 Feb 2024

On 26 February 2024, a joint meeting between the Nordic Lutheran Primates and the...

Inaugural Executive Meeting of the New Joint Working Group between the World Council of Churches and the Roman Catholic Church

23 Feb 2024

The Joint Working Group (JWG) between the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) convened...

The DPUC at the presentation of the Focolare's “Comunion Report 2022” in Rome

21 Feb 2024

On 20 February, the Focolare Movement’s “Communion Report 2022” was published in Rome in the presence of Margaret...

Fifth session of the “Ut unum sint” Diploma

19 Feb 2024

The fifth session of the Diploma Ut unum sint 2023-2024 organized by the Institute of Ecumenical...

First commemoration of the 21 Coptic Martyrs of Libya

16 Feb 2024

On Thursday 15 February 2024, on the occasion of the first commemoration in the Catholic Church of the 21 Coptic...

Meeting of the International Catholic-Lutheran Preparatory Group in Geneva

19 Feb 2024

From 14 to 17 February 2024, a meeting of the International Catholic-Lutheran Preparatory Group took place in Geneva....

Second IARCCUM Summit takes place in Rome and Canterbury

9 Feb 2024

The second summit meeting of the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission (IARCCUM) took...

Catholic Church Represented at the First In-Person Plenary Meeting of the new Faith and Order Commission

8 Feb 2024

The World Council of Churches’ (WCC) Commission on Faith and Order (FO) convened its first in-person meeting of the new...

Study visit of young priests and monks of the Oriental Orthodox Churches

2 Feb 2024

The annual Study Visit for young priests and monks of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, organized for the fourth...

Pope Francis receives the Archbishop of Canterbury

24 Jan 2024

On Thursday 25 January 2024, Pope Francis received in audience His Grace Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury,...

Update on ecumenical relations of the Holy See

30 Jan 2024

As in previous years, during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity L'Osservatore Romano published a series of articles...

Academic Act for the 20th anniversary of the Catholic-Oriental Orthodox dialogue

24 Jan 2024

To mark the twentieth anniversary of the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the...

Annual study visit to Rome and the Vatican of the Bossey Ecumenical Institute

27 Jan 2024

A group of 38 students, faculty members and staff from the Bossey Ecumenical Institute, Switzerland, visited Rome and...

Vespers at the Conclusion of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

25 Jan 2024

Pope Francis marked the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2024 by presiding at Vespers at the Basilica of...

Pope Francis receives Joint International Commission for theological dialogue between Catholic Church and Oriental Orthodox Churches

26 Jan 2024

On Friday, 26 January, His Holiness Pope Francis received in private audience the members of the Joint...

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