The pontiff will join the Orthodox leader for a joint pilgrimage to Nicaea during his first apostolic journey to Türkiye and Lebanon this November

The announcement came from Patriarch Bartholomew himself, immediately after his meeting in Washington with U.S. President Donald Trump, on Monday.

Pope Leo XIV will arrive at the Ecumenical Patriarchate's Phanar See in Istanbul after the commemoration of the 1,700-year-old anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea

"We look at the new pontiff with Christian hope. I intend to come to his enthronement and propose developing dialogue between the East and the West,"

There will be no honeymoon here between the pope and the American leader one may safely say