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Ecumenical Patriarch at the Vatican
In this picture made available by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I, at far right seated, prays with Pope Benedict XVI, second left, in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, Saturday Oct. 18, 2008. During the historic first, Bartholomew urged Catholics and Orthodox to work together to combat fundamentalism and promote religious tolerance. Benedict praised his guest on the occasion of an Orthodox leader's first time at a service in the chapel, frescoed by Michelangelo, where pontiffs are elected. Bartholomew's participation in the Vespers service and speech is a 'joyous experience of unity, perhaps not perfect, but true and deep,' Benedict said.
(AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, HO)
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