Today, the successors of the apostles and brothers Peter and Andrew shared a historic moment in Istanbul. On the feast of the Apostle Saint Andrew, considered the founder of the Orthodox Church in Constantinople, Pope Leo XIV and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, brothers in Christ, offered an ecumenical blessing together at the Patriarchal Church of St. George in Istanbul, Türkiye (Turkey), before sharing a fraternal lunch and the Pope’s departure to Beirut for the next step of his first apos