ECUMENICAL COUNCIL
“Organising Will Take Two Years” (N.Z Press Association—Copyright) VATICAN CITY, Jan. 26. It will probably take at least two years to organise Pope John’s great Ecumenical Council, announced as “an invitation to unite” to all Christians, an authoritative Vatican source said today. About 4000 prelates and scholars of the Roman Catholic Church are expected to attend the council, which will prpbably be held in the Basilica of St. Peter. The Vatican source said that during the long preparation for the council unofficial Vatican approaches would probably be made to the Protestant and other Christian communities of the West, and to the Russian and Greek Orthodox and other Oriental churches. There was very little chance that the unofficial approaches likely to be made to the Protestant Churdhes would produce sufficient agreement to justify their sending representatives to the next Ecumenical Council. Vatican sources said.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28805, 28 January 1959, Page 12
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