The Papal Vault – When Francis Met Kyrill
History of the Papacy Podcast
History of the Papacy
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🗓️ 18 April 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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In this episode we start to peel back the layers of history behind of the meeting of Pope Francis and Patriarch of Kirill of Moscow in February of 2016. Many claims of superlatives have been made about this meeting. Was it the first meeting of its kind? We will see, the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches have some good reasons to push the reset button.
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| 0:00.0 | Side track episode. |
| 0:03.0 | Sidetrack episode 35, when Francis met Kirill. |
| 0:33.7 | Welcome back to A2Z History Presents the History of the Papacy. |
| 0:39.7 | This sidetrack episode is the first and hopefully many more episodes on the historical background for current events involving the popes and Christian church in general. |
| 0:45.4 | It is a little dangerous talking about current events, but it is something I've wanted to do |
| 0:50.5 | for a long time, but I've always been sidetracked, so to speak, by other projects. |
| 0:56.6 | Now it's time to dig in. I want to really thank Joseph Charnesky from the History Podcasts |
| 1:02.8 | Facebook group for posting an article from the BBC that is the starting point for this episode. |
| 1:09.1 | Definitely a big thank you to you, Joseph. I very much appreciate it. |
| 1:12.7 | The BBC article was so thin, historically speaking, it just had to be further investigated. |
| 1:19.1 | This short article only has four small paragraphs. Here is the first paragraph, quote, |
| 1:25.0 | The Pope and the Russian Orthodox Patriarch will meet in Cuba on Friday, the first encounter, quote, the Pope and the Russian Orthodox patriarch will meet in Cuba on |
| 1:28.9 | Friday, the first encounter between the heads of the two churches since they split in the 11th century. |
| 1:35.3 | The only meaningful part of that quote is the part about the two prelates meeting on Friday. |
| 1:40.3 | They actually did meet on Friday, February 11th, 2016, in the Havana, Cuba airport of all places. |
| 1:47.8 | Sounds like a good as place as any, I suppose. |
| 1:50.3 | I wish I could have gone as a correspondent. |
| 1:52.7 | This meeting is a historical meeting for many different reasons, just not for any of the reasons, |
| 1:57.9 | stated in the quote above. |
| 1:59.7 | Saying this was the first encounter between the heads of the two stated in the quote above. Saying this was the first encounter |
| 2:01.2 | between the heads of the two churches since the 11th century conceals layers of actual interesting |
| 2:07.4 | history. Don't get me wrong, this meeting between Pope Francis and patriarchereal is absolutely |
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