The Pope's trip coincides with what he has called a Jubilee Year, marking 1,700 years since the First Ecumenical Council

The primates of major Christian Churches will gather in what was ancient Nicaea (modern-day Iznik), in a symbolic gesture recalling one of the most defining moments in early Christian history: the era of an undivided Christianity in the 4th Century

Momentum for reopening the institution appeared to strengthen after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Sept.

On 28 November, Leo and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will join hands at the site of the Ecumenical Council, Iznik of modern Turkey

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