Christmas Greetings from the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity

23 Dec 2025

"I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness. but will have the light of...

An Hungarian Delegation visits the DPCU

9 Dec 2025

As part of a pilgrimage to Rome led by Archabbot Cirill T. Hortobágyi OSB, a Hungarian delegation including official...

Archbishop Pace at the International Consultation between Judaism and Orthodox Christianity

15 Dec 2025

From 7 to 9 December, the Vice-President of the Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, H.E. Msgr. Flavio...

Dialogue with Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church

16 Dec 2025

On Friday, 12 December, the 26th meeting of the Joint International Commission for Dialogue between the...

Dialogue with Mar Thoma Church

16 Dec 2025

On 11 December, the third meeting of the bilateral dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Malankara Mar Thoma...

Dialogue with Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church

15 Dec 2025

On 9-10 December 2025, the 33rd meeting of the Joint International Commission for Dialogue between the Catholic Church...

Visit of the Anglican Communion’s Commission for Unity, Faith and Order

15 Dec 2025

The Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO) held its annual meeting in Rome from 7 to 11...

Publication of Methodist-Catholic Dialogue Commission Synthesis Document

15 Dec 2025

The Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, together with the World Methodist Council, has published a synthesis...

Pope Leo XIV presides over an ecumenical and interreligious meeting in Beirut

2 Dec 2025

On Monday, 1 December, in Martyrs' Square in Beirut, the Holy Father participated in an ecumenical and interreligious...

The Holy Father attends the Divine Liturgy for the Feast of Saint Andrew

2 Dec 2025

On Sunday, 30 November, at the conclusion of his apostolic journey to Turkey, the Holy Father attended the Divine...

Visit of Pope Leo XIV to the Armenian Apostolic Cathedral in Istanbul

2 Dec 2025

On Sunday, 30 November, the Holy Father visited the Armenian Apostolic Cathedral in Istanbul, where he met with His...

Ecumenical prayer in Iznik to commemorate the First council of Nicaea

1 Dec 2025

On Friday, 28 November, as part of his apostolic journey to Turkey and Lebanon, the Holy Father made a pilgrimage to...

Ecumenical meeting at Mor Ephrem Syriac Orthodox Church in Istanbul

1 Dec 2025

On Saturday 29 November, at the Syriac Orthodox Church of Mor Ephrem in Istanbul, on the occasion of the commemoration...

Joint Declaration by Pope Leo XIV and Patriarch Bartholomew

1 Dec 2025

On Saturday, 29 November, at the Phanar, after attending a doxology at the Patriarchal Church of St. George, during...

Apostolic Journey to Turkey and Lebanon

1 Dec 2025

From 27 November to 2 December 2025, the Holy Father made an Apostolic Journey to Turkey and Lebanon, including a...

DPCU represented at an Interdisciplinary Conference at Campo Santo Teutonico

29 Nov 2025

As part of an interdisciplinary conference at Campo Santo Teutonico, a round-table discussion was...

Visit of United Methodist Bishop of Nordic-Baltic-Ukraine Area

28 Nov 2025

On Wednesday 26 November 2025, the Bishop of the United Methodist Church’s Nordic-Baltic-Ukraine Episcopal Area, Bishop...

Fourth Session of Salvation Army-Roman Catholic Informal Conversations

27 Nov 2025

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

Apostolic Letter In unitate fidei on the occasion of the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea

23 Nov 2025

On 23 November, a few days before his apostolic journey to Turkey on the occasion of the 1700th anniversary of the...

Ecumenical Conference in Vienna on the Healing of Memories

17 Nov 2025

From 13 to 16 November 2025, the Pro Oriente Foundation organised an international ecumenical conference entitled...

Annual Informal Talks with the Anglican Communion take place in Rome

14 Nov 2025

On 10 and 11 November 2025, the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity hosted representatives from the Anglican...

Publication of the Hungarian and Czech translations of the document "The Bishop of Rome"

12 Nov 2025

The Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity is pleased to announce the publication of the document "The...

DPCU represented at annual Conference of Secretaries of Christian World Communions

6 Nov 2025

The annual Conference of Secretaries of Christian World Communions (CS/CWCs) took place in Istanbul, Turkey, from 4 to...

Church of England delegation attends Proclamation of St John Henry Newman as Doctor of the Church

4 Nov 2025

During Mass in St Peter’s Square on Saturday 1 November 2025, the Solemnity of All Saints, the Holy Father Leo XIV...

Catholic Perspectives on Faith, Mission and Unity at the Faith and Order Conference in Wadi El Natrun

4 Nov 2025

The Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order, held in Wadi El Natrun (Egypt) from 24 to 28 October 2025, gathered...

Symposium and Festschrift on the Occasion of Cardinal Kurt Koch’s 75th Birthday

4 Nov 2025

From 31 October to 2 November 2025, a symposium was held at Vinzenz Pallotti University in Vallendar (Germany) in...

Catholic Participation in the Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches

3 Nov 2025

A delegation of sixteen Catholic theologians — ordained, religious, and lay, women and men from more than ten countries...

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

29 Oct 2025

On 27 and 28 October 2025, the seventeenth plenary session of the Joint International Commission for Theological...

Pope Leo XIV receives Catholicos Patriarch Mar Awa III

29 Oct 2025

On Monday 27 October, the Holy Father received at the Apostolic Palace His Holiness Mar Awa III, Catholicos...

Participation of Catholic Theologians in the Meeting of the Faith and Order Commission

28 Oct 2025

On 23 October 2025, five Catholic theologians participated in the meeting of the Commission on Faith and Order of the...

MERCIC Plenary Meeting takes place in San Salvador

27 Oct 2025

The Methodist-Roman Catholic International Commission (MERCIC) held its annual plenary meeting in San Salvador, the...

Protestant pilgrims from Central Germany visit DPCU

27 Oct 2025

On 20 October 2025, a group of pilgrims from the Protestant Church in Central Germany (EKM) visited the Dicastery for...

Ecumenical Prayer during the State Visit of King Charles III to the Holy See

24 Oct 2025

His Majesty King Charles III of Great Britain, together with his consort, Queen Camilla, undertook a state visit to the...

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

24 Oct 2025

At the invitation of its Orthodox Co-President, the Saint Irenaeus Joint Orthodox-Catholic Working Group gathered for...

ARCIC Plenary Meeting takes place in Melbourne

15 Oct 2025

The Anglican–Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC III) held its annual plenary meeting in Melbourne,...

Visit to the Vatican by Orthodox Eritrean pilgrims

14 Oct 2025

On Sunday, 12 October, a delegation of around 250 pilgrims from the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church visited the...

Ecumenical conference in Iraq on the Council of Nicaea

6 Oct 2025

From 27 to 29 September, an academic conference entitled ‘The 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea’ was...

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

30 Sep 2025

On 29 September 2025, the Chairwoman of the German National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation (GNC-LWF),...

Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Malines Conversations

24 Sep 2025

The centenary of the Catholic-Anglican talks known as the Malines Conversations was marked in the city of Mechelen...

The Holy Father receives His Holiness Karekin II

16 Sep 2025

His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, paid an official visit to the Vatican from...

Centro Melantone Ecumenical Summer Course visits DPCU

15 Sep 2025

On 8 September 2025, participants of the Centro Melantone Ecumenical Summer Course visited the Dicastery for Promoting...

Coordinating Committee of the International Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue

12 Sep 2025

From 8 to 12 September, the Coordinating Committee of the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue...

In Memoriam Father Kilian McDonnell, OSB

11 Sep 2025

Father Kilian McDonnell, OSB, died on 8 September 2025. The Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity expresses its...

Preparation of Texts for 2027 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

8 Sep 2025

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

Joint Working Group Plenary in Rome

4 Sep 2025

The Joint Working Group (JWG) between the Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches (WCC) held its plenary...

Publication of the German Translation of the Document "The Bishop of Rome"

3 Sep 2025

The Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity is pleased to announce the publication of the document "The Bishop of...

DPCU represented at various ecumenical occasions in Latvia

1 Sep 2025

On 28 August 2025, Father Dr. Augustinus Sander OSB, staff member of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian...

Participation of Cardinal Koch at Rimini Meeting

1 Sep 2025

On 26 August, the Cardinal Prefect participated as a speaker at the Conference on the 1700th Anniversary of the Council...

In Memoriam Revd Dr Peter Cruchley

18 Aug 2025

The Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity has received with deep sadness the news of the passing of Revd Dr Peter...

Acta Œcumenica 2024

13 Aug 2025

Acta Œcumenica (no. 6/2024) is available online on this website and in hard copy from the Libreria...

DPCU participates in ecumenical prayer for Youth Jubilee

4 Aug 2025

On 1 August, His Excellency Monsignor Flavio Pace, Secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity (DPCU),...

Pope Leo XIV receives an Orthodox-Catholic pilgrimage from the United States

31 Jul 2025

On 17 July 2025, the Holy Father received at the Apostolic Palace in Castel Gandolfo the participants in an...

DPCU represented at ecumenical commemoration of Nicaea in Paderborn (Germany)

29 Jul 2025

As part of the annual festival week in honour of Saint Liborius, an ecumenical prayer service commemorating the First...

The Holy Father receives Metropolitan Antonij of Volokolamsk

31 Jul 2025

On Saturday, 26 July 2025, in the Vatican Apostolic Palace, His Holiness Pope Leo XIV received in private audience His...

Participation in the First Celebration of the "Mass for the Care of Creation"

10 Jul 2025

On the morning of Wednesday, July 9, in the gardens of Palazzo Barberini in Castel Gandolfo—at the "Borgo Laudato...

In Memoriam Mar Aprem Mooken

9 Jul 2025

The Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity was deeply saddened to learn of the death of His Grace Dr Mar Aprem Mooken,...

In Memoriam Mons. John A. Radano

8 Jul 2025

The Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity mourns the death of Monsignor John A. Radano. Originally from the United...

DPCU attends ICCJ's annual meeting

2 Jul 2025

From 29 June to 2 July, the ICCJ's annual meeting took place in Warsaw. Delegates from five continents participated,...

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

30 Jun 2025

As part of the traditional exchange of delegations for the respective feasts of the patron saints — on 29 June in Rome...

Catholic Church participates in WCC Central Committee Meeting in Johannesburg

24 Jun 2025

The Central Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC) held its second meeting since the 11th Assembly (2022) in...

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

24 Jun 2025

From 12 to 16 June 2025, the Council of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) met in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, under...

Texts for 2026 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

23 Jun 2025

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

Ecumenical delegation from Germany visits DPCU

17 Jun 2025

As part of an ecumenical pilgrimage to Rome on the occasion of the 1700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea...

Pope Leo XIV receives participants of the 'Nicaea and the Church of the Third Millennium' symposium

10 Jun 2025

On Saturday 7 June, His Holiness Pope Leo XIV held a private audience with the participants of the ecumenical symposium...

Ecumenical Conference on Nicaea at the Angelicum

10 Jun 2025

From 4 to 7 June, an international ecumenical symposium entitled “Nicaea and the Church of the Third Millennium:...

DPCU at the 500th Anniversary of the Anabaptist Movement

4 Jun 2025

On 29 May, Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, and Monsignor Usma, Head of the...

Message of Pope Leo XIV for the 500th Anniversary of the Anabaptist Movement

30 May 2025

On Thursday 29 May, Pope Leo XIV sent a message on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Anabaptist Movement....

Candler School of Theology Student Visit

26 May 2025

On Monday 26 May 2025, a student group from Candler School of Theology in the United States of America visited the...

Representatives of the New Apostolic Church visit DPCU

22 May 2025

On 21 May 2025, Peter Johanning, the contact person for the Ecumenical Department of the New Apostolic Church...

Audience to representatives of Churches and Christian Communions and of other religions

21 May 2025

On Monday, May 19, His Holiness Pope Leo XIV received the representatives of Churches and Christian Communions and of...

Representatives of the Jewish Community at the Inaugural Mass of the Pontificate of Pope Leo XIV

21 May 2025

Representatives of the Jewish Community attended the inaugural Mass of the Pontificate of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV. We...

Churches and Christian Communions Represented at the Mass Inaugurating the Pontificate of Pope Leo XIV

21 May 2025

On the occasion of the Mass inaugurating the pontificate of Pope Leo XIV, numerous Churches, Christian Communions and...

Messages of congratulations to Pope Leo XIV on his election

13 May 2025

On the occasion of the election of His Holiness Leo XIV as the new Bishop of Rome and Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic...

Commissioning of the new Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome

8 May 2025

On Tuesday 6 May 2025, the new Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome, Bishop Anthony Ball, was formally commissioned...

DPCU represented at an ecumenical prayer for the election of the new Bishop of Rome

6 May 2025

On the eve of the papal conclave, an online ecumenical prayer meeting was held to invoke the guidance of the Holy...

Churches and Christian Communions represented at funeral of Pope Francis

28 Apr 2025

On the occasion of the funeral of His Holiness Pope Francis, many Churches, Christian Communions and international...

Messages of condolence on death of Pope Francis

28 Apr 2025

On the occasion of the death of His Holiness Pope Francis on 22 April 2025, numerous messages of condolence were sent...

Representatives of the Jewish Community at Pope Francis' Funeral

28 Apr 2025

Several representatives of the Jewish Community took part in the funeral of His Holiness Pope Francis. Below we publish...

Pope Francis and Christian unity

23 Apr 2025

In memory of His Holiness Pope Francis, we invite you to watch the film Pope Francis and Christian Unity. Unity on the...

Easter greetings from the Dicastery

16 Apr 2025

The Lord has risen! He has risen indeed! The Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity extends heartfelt greetings to...

Malines Conversations Group meeting in York, England

11 Apr 2025

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

Students from Centro Melantone visit DPCU

10 Apr 2025

On 8 April 2025, a group of German students from Centro Melantone in Rome, accompanied by their Director of...

Representatives of the Lutheran World Federation visit DPCU

8 Apr 2025

On 7 April 2025, the General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), the Reverend Dr Anne...

Cardinal Koch visits Möhler Institute in Paderborn

8 Apr 2025

On 2 and 3 April 2025, Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity (DPCU), and Father Dr...

Ecumenical Via Crucis in Rome

7 Apr 2025

On 4 April, H.E. Msgr. Flavio Pace, Secretary of the DPCU, presided over an ecumenical Way of the Cross in Rome’s 4th...

British Catholic-Reformed Dialogue Group visits Rome

31 Mar 2025

The official Roman Catholic-United Reformed Church Dialogue Group from Great Britain visited Rome from 25 to 28 March....

Festschrift for Cardinal Kurt Koch

31 Mar 2025

On 22 March 2025, Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity (DPCU), was honoured with...

Conference of Cardinal Koch in Rawalpindi

27 Mar 2025

From 26 to 28 March 2025, Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, visited Pakistan...

The Bishop of Rome and Christian Unity – Ecumenical Webinar

24 Mar 2025

On 18 March 2025, the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity (DPCU) jointly...

Ecumenical Prayer for Pope Francis and all the Sick

21 Mar 2025

On Friday 21 March, an Ecumenical Prayer for the sick and suffering and the health of Pope Francis took place in the...

Joint Working Group Executive Committee convenes online to launch three new working groups

28 Feb 2025

The Executive Committee of the Joint Working Group (JWG) between the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Roman...

Meeting of the Augustana Working Group in Rome

26 Feb 2025

The third meeting of the Concordia Lutheran-Catholic Augustana Working Group (AWG) took place in Rome from 23...

Study Visit of young priests and monks from the Oriental Orthodox Churches

10 Feb 2025

The annual Study Visit for young priests and monks from the Oriental Orthodox Churches, organised by the Dicastery for...

DPCU at the presentation of the ‘New Testament. Ecumenical literary translation’

26 Feb 2025

On Tuesday, 25 February, at the Waldensian Church in Piazza Cavour, Rome, Archbishop Flavio Pace, Secretary of the...

Pope Francis receives a delegation of young priests and monks from the Oriental Orthodox Churches

6 Feb 2025

On Thursday 6 February, Pope Francis received in private audience a delegation of young priests and monks from the...

Lutheran Youth Choir of Rostock at the Vatican

6 Feb 2025

On 5 February, the youth choir of the St. Johannis-Kantorei (comprising 60 members), under the direction of KMD Prof....

DPUC at the meeting of the network of leaders of Missão Somos Um

3 Feb 2025

On 1 February, Monsignor Usma Gómez, Head of the Western Section of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, took...

Update on ecumenical relations of the Holy See

30 Jan 2025

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

Annual Study Visit to Rome and the Vatican by the Bossey Ecumenical Institute

30 Jan 2025

A diverse group of 37 students, faculty members, and staff from the Bossey Ecumenical Institute in Switzerland...

Retirement of the Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome

27 Jan 2025

The Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome (ACR) and Personal Representative of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the...

Serbian Orthodox Choir participates in Vespers with the Holy Father

27 Jan 2025

On 25 January 2025, the Orthodox Choir of the Cathedral of Niš (Serbia) took part in Vespers with the Holy Father at St...

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

27 Jan 2025

On Saturday 25 January 2025, Pope Francis once again marked the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity by...

In Memoriam Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durrës, and All Albania

27 Jan 2025

The Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity (DPCU) has learned with sorrow of the passing of His Beatitude Anastasios,...

Ecumenical delegation from Finland visits Rome

26 Jan 2025

On 20 January 2025, Pope Francis received an ecumenical delegation from Finland, accompanied by the "Cappella...

Meeting of Catholic Members of the Catholic-Oriental Orthodox Dialogue

24 Jan 2025

On 20 and 21 January, the Catholic members of the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the...

Visit of Anglican Ecumenism Study Group

24 Jan 2025

Between 15 and 25 January 2025, a course entitled Christian Unity in Rome: Anglican Ecclesiology and Ecumenism took...

In Memoriam Revd Dr Clifton Kirkpatrick

23 Jan 2025

Revd Dr Clifton Kirkpatrick passed away on 18 January 2025. He served as President of the World Alliance of...

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...