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Pope donates 100,000 euros (£90,000) towards first Orthodox monastery in Austria

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Pope Francis has donated 100,000 euros (£90,000) towards the first Orthodox monastery that

is being built at St Andrä in Austria’s easternmost province of Burgenland.

At a festive ceremony in the Greek-Orthodox Holy Trinity Cathedral (“Dreifaltigkeitskathedrale”) in Vienna on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Austria’s Orthodox Act of 1967, -  (the Roman Catholic Church enjoys special rights in Austria regulated in the Concordat but statutory enactments also regulate the state’s relationship to other Churches) – the President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, Cardinal Kurt Koch and the Bishop of Eisenstadt (capital of the Burgenland) Ägidius Zsifkovics presented the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I with the Pope’s donation.

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