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			<copyright>Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople 2006</copyright>
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				<title>Edict of Milan Seminar</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/news/releases/edict-of-milan-2013</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ On Friday, May 17, 2013, the Ecumenical Patriarchate honored the 1700th anniversary of Emperor Constantine the Great's "Edict of Milan" by hosting an international and interfaith one-day seminar in collaboration with the Council of European Episcopal Churches at the Conrad Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey.   ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 01:54:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>His All-Holiness offers Easter message on The Huffington Post</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/news/releases/easter-2013-huffington-post</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ His All-Holiness was invited to contribute a message to The Huffington Post on the occasion of Orthodox Easter. He offered “a refreshing perspective on Easter: we see an open tomb, not an empty grave. The miracle of the Resurrection then is an open invitation to a new way of living that prevails over the darkness within us and around us.”  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 05:05:26 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>His All-Holiness in Imvros for Holy Week and Pascha</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/news/releases/imvros-holyweek-2013</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ For the first time in 22 years, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will not preside over Holy Week and Pascha services at the Patriarchal Church of St. George at the Phanar. Instead, he will be on his native island of Imvros, where he will preside over services in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Imvros and in his home village of Sts. Theodores.   ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 08:20:46 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>His All-Holiness addresses Pope Francis at the Vatican</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/news/releases/his-all-holiness-addresses-pope-francis-at-the-vatican</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ His All-Holiness addressed Pope Francis during a special papal reception of inter-church and inter-religious leaders on Wednesday, March 21. Click here for the text of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:29:44 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>The Extraordinary Historical Significance of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew's Presence at Pope Francis' Installation as Bishop of Rome</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/news/releases/patriarch-present-at-pope-francis-installation</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Amid the crush of news reports in the past month that followed Pope Benedict's unprecedented resignation from the papacy, one of the most intriguing was the decision by His All-Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, to attend Pope Francis' installation as Bishop of Rome.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:30:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>His All-Holiness meets privately with Pope Francis and represents religious communities at papal reception</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/news/releases/2013popefrancismeet</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ His All-Holiness met in private with Pope Francis on Wednesday, March 20, 2013, where he invited the Pope to commemorate and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the restoration of relations between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:33:34 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>His All-Holiness attends papal inaugural mass</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/news/releases/2013papalmass</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ His All-Holiness attended the inaugural papal mass in St. Peter's Square on Tuesday, March 19, 2013.   ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:22:51 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>His All-Holiness congratulates newly-elected Pope Francis</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/news/releases/his-all-holiness-congratulates-newly-elected-pope-francis</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Immediately following the election of Pope Francis on the evening of March 13, His All-Holiness communicated the following congratulatory message to the Vatican:  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:39:01 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>2013 Catechetical Homily of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew for the beginning of Great Lent</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/news/releases/catechetical-homily-of-ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-for-the-beginning-of-great-lent</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ The holy fathers, who arranged everything in an orderly manner, instituted a period of ascetic discipline and spiritual purification for forty days prior to the great feast of the Lord’s resurrection. This ascetic rule assumes the form of a limitation on foods through fasting, but especially an abstinence from evil.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:19:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Statement by His All-Holiness at the announcement of the retirement of Benedict XVI, Pope of Rome</title>
				<link>http://patriarchate.org/news/releases/statement-by-his-all-holiness-at-the-announcement-of-the-retirement-of-benedict-xvi-pope-of-rome</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Upon being informed on the way to his native island of Imvros of the imminent retirement of Pope Benedict from the Petrine ministry on the Throne of Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew issued a formal declaration and personal statement to the media, responding with sadness to the news.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:23:49 -0400</pubDate>
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