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\n<\/a>Vienna Greek-Orthodox archbishop to visit Moscow<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vienna Greek-Orthodox Archbishop Michael Staikos, the Church\u2019s Exarch for Central Europe, will visit Moscow on Pentecost, 24 May, it was announced today (Thurs).<\/p>\n

He will accompany Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomaios I.<\/p>\n

Staikos has said he is confident that the pan-Orthodox Council, which has been in the planning stages for years, will finally take place in 2012 or 2013.<\/p>\n

Staikos told Catholic press agency Kathpress that relations between Moscow and Constantinople (Istanbul) have improved significantly since new Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill\u2019s recent visit to Istanbul.<\/p>\n

Staikos said Bartholomaios\u2019 upcoming visit to Moscow is an attempt to improve intra-Orthodox relations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Austrian Times Vienna Greek-Orthodox archbishop to visit Moscow Vienna Greek-Orthodox Archbishop Michael Staikos, the Church\u2019s Exarch for Central Europe, will visit Moscow on Pentecost, 24 May, it was announced today (Thurs). He will accompany Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomaios I. Staikos has said he is confident that the pan-Orthodox Council, which has been in the planning stages […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1784],"tags":[706,296],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6677,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6674\/revisions\/6677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}