King Charles to visit Vatican and meet Pope Leo for first time | King Charles III
Buckingham Palace, King King III and Queen Camail’s Pope Leo Xiv for the first time in the Vatican’da Vatican’da said he would meet for the first time.
The journey at the end of October will come about six months after the royal couple visited Leo’s predecessor Papa Francis shortly before their death in April.
In a statement, the palace said that during the next journey, President of the Church of the UK Charles and Camilla would join Leo during the celebrations to mark the current Jubilee year.
“The visit will also celebrate the Ecumenical work of the Church of England and the Catholic Church and reflect the theme of walking together as ‘Hope Pilgrims’.
The royal couple’s visit to Holy See will make a journey they had to cancel in April due to Francis’s unsuccessful health. A few weeks later, they were able to see Pontiff for a special meeting that became one of the last honor who saw him before his death at 88. 76 -year -old Charles and Francis shared a passion for protecting the environment.
Francis died as 1.4 billion Catholic president of the world after 12 years, and Leo was elected on a cardinal floor in May. Leo, 70 -year -old, who has a missionary work history in Peru, is the first pope of the USA.
The royal couple’s four -day trip to Italy in April was suspected by the King’s own health fear. Charles was briefly taken to hospital on 27 March after having temporary side effects from the treatment of cancer announced last year.
The King had previously visited the Vatican as a prince of Wales five times and met three pope.
It was adopted by Francis during the visits to the Vatican in 2017 and 2019 and by Benedict XVI in 2009. During his visit to England in 1982, he met with John Paul II and attended the Pope Pope in 2005 at the Vatican’s funeral.
As the Church of England, King Charles leads the Church of the Global Anglicanism. In the 16th century, the church was broken with the Vatican for refusing to cancel his marriage with Aragon Catherine. Founded by Henry.
Divided, fueled centuries -long conflict, but in modern times the relations between the Catholic Church and the Church of England – it was often called the Anglican Church – became friendly.
With Reuters
