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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Pope hopes to visit Turkey in 2025 to mark 1,700 years since the Council of Nicaea

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Pope Francis said on Thursday that he hopes to travel to Turkey next year to commemorate the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, Christianity’s first ecumenical council.

The visit to Nicaea, today located in İznik on a lake southeast of Istanbul, would come during Francis’ big Holy Year, the once-every-quarter-century celebration of Christianity.

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