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{{Short description|1965 withdrawal of mutual excommunications by the Catholic and Orthodox church leaders}}
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The '''Catholic–Orthodox Joint Declaration of 1965''' was read out on 7 December 1965, simultaneously at a public meeting of the [[Second Vatican Council]] in [[Rome]], and at a special ceremony in [[Istanbul]]. It withdrew the exchange of [[excommunication]]s between prominent ecclesiastics in the [[Holy See]] and the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople]], commonly known as the [[East–West Schism|Great Schism]] of  1054.  While it did not end the schism, it showed a desire for greater reconciliation between the two churches, represented by [[Pope Paul VI]] and [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople|Ecumenical Patriarch]] [[Patriarch Athenagoras I|Athenagoras I]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Joint Catholic-Orthodox Declaration of his Holiness Pope Paul VI and the Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I|date=7 December 1965|publisher=La Santa Sede (Vatican)|url=https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/speeches/1965/documents/hf_p-vi_spe_19651207_common-declaration_en.html}}</ref>

Metropolitan [[Philaret (Voznesensky)]] of the [[Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia]] openly challenged the Patriarch's efforts at rapprochement with the Roman Catholic Church, claiming that it would inevitably lead to [[heresy]], in his 1965 epistle to the Patriarch.<ref>{{cite web|author=Metropolitan Philaret|title=A Protest to Patriarch Athenagoras: On the Lifting of the Anathemas of 1054|date=December 1965|publisher=Orthodox Christian Information Center|url=http://orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/philaret_lifting.aspx}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Joint Declaration of Pope Francis and Bishop Munib Younan]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/speeches/1965/documents/hf_p-vi_spe_19651207_common-declaration.html Catholic-Orthodox joint declaration of 1965 at from the Vatican site]
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