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PHOTOS/ King Charles' historic visit to the Vatican, a British monarch and a Pope pray together for the first time in 500 years!

2025-10-23 15:10:20Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

PHOTOS/ King Charles' historic visit to the Vatican, a British monarch and

Nearly five centuries after King Henry VIII of England split from the Catholic Church so he could divorce and remarry (and again and again), another divorced and remarried English monarch prayed with the Pope on Thursday at an ecumenical service in the Sistine Chapel.

The service was held in the same room where Pope Leo XIV was recently elected as the head of the Roman Catholic Church.

It was the first time in hundreds of years that a pope and a British monarch, the nominal head of the Church of England, have prayed publicly together.

The meeting was a sign of markedly improved relations between the Anglican and Catholic faiths, as well as of King Charles III's eagerness to be seen as an ecumenical leader.

Queen Elizabeth II, the king's mother, met with several popes during her seven-decade reign, but never prayed publicly with any of them.

King Charles and Queen Camilla met with Pope Francis in April, shortly before Francis' death, but there was no prayer service.

The Most Reverend Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York, led prayers under Michelangelo's frescoes and accompanied by Anglican and Catholic choirs.

With Michelangelo's "Last Judgment" towering behind them, Leo and Archbishop Cottrell led the service in English and Latin, while the king and queen sat in golden chairs nearby.

After the service, Pope Leo and the king left the Sistine Chapel together.

The king and queen attended the service as part of a state visit to the Vatican that coincided with the Jubilee, a year of penance and forgiveness that takes place every quarter of a century.

Before the prayer service, they had a private audience with Leo and the king met with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican's secretary of state.

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