Highlight reel - This video highlights some of the historic moments of the Apostolic Pilgrimage to Jerusalem of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Pope Francis (May 2014) and the visit of Pope Francis to Constantinople on the occasion of the Feast Day of St. Andrew (November 2014).

Pope Francis met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, commemorating the 50th anniversary of their predecessors' meeting, May 25.

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew met today with Pope Francis on the Mount of Olives. At the site known as Viri Galilaei (Acts 1.11), the Patriarch and the Pontiff met for the third and final time during their joint pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land. It marked the conclusion of an historical pilgrimage and fraternal encounter.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, at the invitation of the Government of Israel, planted an olive tree at the Grove of Nations on Mt. Herzel in Jerusalem. The invitation to plant a tree here is restricted to Presidents and Prime Ministers and the highest level official guests. Today's planting is a high honor afforded to the Ecumenical Patriarch and an acknowledgement of his environmental initiatives. Efi Stenzler, World Chairman of the Karen Kayemeth LeIsrael Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF), received Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the event.

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and His Holiness Pope Francis celebrated a fifty-year milestone today, continuing the legacy of their predecessors Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras. Meeting at the Apostolic Delegation in the Old City of Jerusalem, the worldwide heads of the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox Churches signed a Joint Declaration affirming their commitment to and anticipation of full sacramental unity in obedience to the commandment of Jesus Christ that his "disciples may be one."

It is with awe, emotion and respect that we stand before “the place where the Lord lay,” the life-giving tomb from which life emerged. And we offer glory to the all-merciful God, who rendered us, His unworthy servants, worthy of this supreme blessing to become pilgrims in the place where the mystery of the world’s salvation transpired.

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III co-celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Katholikon of the Holy Sepulcher on May 25, 2014.

Remarks by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the welcome dinner for the Apostolic Pilgrimage on Saturday, May 24, 2014.

Remarks by His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios at the welcome dinner for the Apostolic Pilgrimage on Saturday, May 24, 2014.

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of over 300 million Orthodox faithful worldwide, who is in Israel to meet with Pope Francis, today visited Bethlehem to venerate the sacred site of Christ' s Birth and pray with its shrinking Christian population.

An audio recording from the 1964 meeting of Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras with a photo montage from this historic event.

Interview with Fr. Alex Karloutsos on PBS Religion and Ethics Newsweekly on the meeting between Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Jerusalem. The Holy Land meeting of Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew should “reaffirm our commitment to the dialogue of love, to the dialogue of truth, and to a sense of unity moving toward a sense of communion.”

Τόν ἐπίκαιρον τοῦτον χαρμόσυνον χαιρετισμόν, ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ Ἀναστάντος Κυρίου καί Θεοῦ καί Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἀπευθύνομεν ὡς Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, Νέας Ρώμης καί Οἰκουμενικός Πατριάρχης πρός Ὑμᾶς, τόν Μακαριώτατον Πατριάρχην τῆς Πόλεως τῶν Ἱεροσολύμων, τῆς Ἁγίας Σιών, διακατεχόμενοι ὑπό μεγάλης καί ἀνεκφράστου συγκινήσεως, ἀφ᾿ ἑνός μέν ἐκ τῆς προσκυνήσεως τῶν πανσεβάστων Προσκυνημάτων τῆς Ἁγίας Γῆς, ἀφ᾿ ἑτέρου δέ ἐκ τῆς ἐν Χριστῷ κοινωνίας μετά τῶν θυσιαστικῶς φυλασσόντων τά προσκυνήματα ταῦτα ἀδελφῶν καί συλλειτουργῶν ἡμῶν, μέ ἀρχιφύλακα τήν Ὑμετέραν λίαν ἡμῖν ἀγαπητήν καί περισπούδαστον Μακαριότητα, ἀδελφέ κύριε Θεόφιλε. Καί ἀναφωνοῦμεν καί ἡμεῖς μετά τοῦ Προφήτου «διά Σιών οὐ σιωπήσομαι καί διά Ἱερουσαλήμ οὐκ ἀνήσω».

On May 23, 2014, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III venerate the stone where Christ's body was prepared for burial and venerate the tomb of Christ in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of over 300 million Orthodox Christian faithful worldwide, arrived in Israel today in order to meet with Pope Francis on May 25 and 26, 2014 in the Holy City of Jerusalem.

His Eminence Metropolitan Emmanuel of France discusses the upcoming Apostolic Pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

Most Reverend Joseph E. Kurtz, Archbishop of Louisville and President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, explains the history behind the upcoming trip in Jerusalem between Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, and discusses the issue of Christian suffering in the Middle East.

His All-Holiness Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, explains the history of the 1964 encounter in the Holy Land between the two brother Bishops, Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras. As the successors to this historic meeting, Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will also discuss the continued witness to the truth of the Gospel in a world facing many challenges.

His All-Holiness Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, discusses the 1964 encounter in the Holy Land between Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras; and the symbolic confirmation of the ongoing commitment to the path of reconciliation between the two Churches.