The Catholic–Orthodox Joint Declaration of 1965 was read out on 7 December 1965 simultaneously at a public meeting of the

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and at a special ceremony in

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. It withdrew the exchange of

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s between prominent ecclesiastics in the

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and the

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, commonly known as the Great Schism of 1054. It did not end the schism but showed a desire for greater reconciliation between the two churches, represented by

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and

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Athenagoras I. The document and accompanying texts are also referred to as ' Tomos Agapes' ('Document of Love'). Many Orthodox reacted negatively to the declaration. Metropolitan Philaret of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad openly challenged the Patriarch's efforts at rapprochement with the Roman Catholic Church, claiming that it would inevitably lead to

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, in his 1965 epistle to the Patriarch. The monks at

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reportedly excluded Athenagoras from their daily prayers after the declaration.

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* Catholic-Orthodox joint declaration of 1965
from the Vatican site
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