They were Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, «first among equals» of Orthodoxy; Greek-Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim of Antioch; Catholicos Mar Dinkha IV of the Assyrian Church; Russian Metropolitan Pitirim of Volokolamsk and Juriev, vicar of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Moscow; and Orthodox Archbishop Anastas of Albania.
The Christian leaders came to the Vatican with their entourages. The Press Office did not reveal details of their audience.
