From this sacred courtyard, we also greet His Holiness the Pope of the elder Rome, John Paul II, with whom we are in communion of love. We assure him that a most serious concern for us shall be the realization of the sacred vision of our late predecessors, Athenagoras and Dimitrios, so that the way of the Lord will be fulfilled on earth for his holy Church in the reunion of all who believe in Him through the dialogue of truth. We shall do everything in our power to move in this direction, in fear of God, sincerity, honesty, and prudence. We are convinced that our brother in the West will exhaust all the many possibilities at his disposal and cooperate with us towards this sacred and holy objective.

Out of deep esteem we embrace in the Lord the venerable Primate of the Church of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, and the entire Anglican Communion. Manifesting our intention to continue with faithfulness the long tradition of fraternal relations with the Anglican Church, we express our desire to promote our theological dialogue until we achieve the unity of faith.

In the same spirit we great and embrace the Old Catholic Church throughout the world in the person of its venerable Primate, Archbishop Anthony of Utrecht, expressing the sincere wish that the dialogue with his Church will lead us to the glory of Christ.

With feelings of peace and love we embrace with the kiss of Christ all the other Christian Churches and Confessions, the Lutheran and the Reformed with whom we are also in theological dialogue, the Methodists with whom we are in the preparatory stages of dialogue, and the christian communities one and all throughout the world, as many as believe and preach, according to the scriptures, the crucified Christ and bear the good spirit, that they may partake of the common banquet of the faith in the unity of the apostolic-patristic tradition.