Neumann exhibit: Roman Catholic meets Eastern Orthodox

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One of the items in the East Meets West exhibit at Neumann University in Aston is an 18th-century bust of Saint Augustine. The exhibit runs Feb. 23-April 23.

Posted: 02/09/15, 11:04 AM EST

ASTON >> Neumann University, in partnership with Saint Herman of Alaska Orthodox Church (OCA), will celebrate 50 years of constructive dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodoxy with an exhibit titled East Meets West: An Ecclesial Embrace. An Exhibit Commemorating the 50 anniversary of the Historic Jerusalem meeting of Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I.

The exhibit, which runs Feb. 23-April 23 in the university library, features exquisite icons, vestments, liturgical art and vessels of the Orthodox Church as well as rare artifacts from that meeting of Paul VI and Athenagoras I. East Meets West is free and open to the public.

Fifty years ago, the meeting captured the attention of Christians around the world because it signaled a change in the relationship between the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church, initiating dialogue that had been absent for centuries. The Jan. 6, 1964, encounter was the first formal meeting of a pope and patriarch since 1438.

The Rev. Patrick Viscuso, Ph.D., of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America will deliver an opening lecture, based on the exhibit title, 7 p.m. Feb. 23 in Sacred Heart Chapel.

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