This was a significant step towards restoring communion between Rome and Constantinople. It produced the Catholic-Orthodox Joint declaration of 1965, which was read out on 7 December 1965, simultaneously at a public meeting of the Second Vatican Council in Rome and at a special ceremony in Istanbul. The declaration did not end the schism, but showed a desire for greater reconciliation between the two churches. In May 1973, the Coptic Patriarch Shenouda III of Alexandria visited the Vatican, where he met three times with Pope Paul VI. A common declaration and a joint Creed issued after the visit demonstrated that there are virtually no more[additional citation needed] theological discrepancies between the Coptic and Roman Catholic Churches.
অর্থোডক্স ও ক্যাথলিক সম্পর্ক নিয়ে আলোচনা করার প্রচেষ্টায় কে ১৯৭৩ সালের মে মাসে ভ্যাটিক্যান পরিদর্শন করেছিল?
Coptic Patriarch Shenouda III