In an effort to enhance religious unity between the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches, Pope Francis has decided to return to Greece three 2,500-year-old pieces of the Parthenon that have been in the papal collections of the Vatican Museums for two centuries, the Guardian website reports today (Dec.20, 2022).
The Vatican said that the pope was giving them to Archbishop Ieronymos II, head of the Greek Orthodox Church and Greece's spiritual leader, as a "donation"and "concrete sign of his sincere desire to follow the ecumenical path of truth."
The Parthenon, which is on the Acropolis in Athens, was completed in the fifth century BC as a temple to the goddess Athena.
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