KATOLICKO-PRAWOSŁAWNY DIALOG EKUMENICZNY W OSTATNIM PIĘĆDZIESIĘCIOLECIU (1964–2014)

The article takes stock of the past fifty years Catholic-Orthodox dialogue. They appoint them two events ecumenical especially important to him, it is the meeting of Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I (1964) and Francis Pope and the Patriarch Bartholomew in Jerusalem (2014). The outline shows a gradual process of division between the Churches of East and West. More specifically discusses the course of contemporary dialogue, focusing on the key issues agreed, as reflected in jointly agreed by the partners of dialogue documents. There also omits the most contentious issues that still prevent full communion between the two Churches. In the end, it shows how important the dialogue was to meet Pope Francis and the Patriarch Bartholomew I in Jerusalem in 2014, even though his rank was much lower than the meeting of heads of Churches in 1964.