Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Archbishop hopes to build bridges with Catholicism

Williams looks to build bridges with Catholicism

By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent
telegraph.co.uk
(Filed: 25/04/2005)

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, will meet the new Pope today amid renewed hopes for the future of relations between the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches.

Dr Williams became the first serving archbishop to attend a papal funeral this month and he was among the scores of religious leaders at Pope Benedict XVI's inauguration yesterday.

His ecumenical enthusiasm has dismayed conservative Protestants and he will anger them further when he leads an Anglican delegation in an audience with Benedict XVI in the Vatican.

But the archbishop has made no secret of his desire for greater unity with the Catholic Church, from which the Church of England separated during the reign of Henry VIII.

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