> [[jpii-uus-04|← Previous]] | [[ut-unum-sint-toc|TOC]] # Notes **[1](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-1)** Cf. Address following the Way of the Cross on Good Friday (1 April 1994), 3: *AAS* 87 (1995), 88. **[2](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-2)** SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Declaration On Religious Freedom *Dignitatis Humanae*, 1. **[3](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-3)** Cf. Apostolic Letter *Tertio Millennio Adveniente* (10 November 1994), 16: *AAS* 87 (1995), 15. **[4](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-4)** CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH, Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on Some Aspects of the Church Understood as Communion *Communionis Notio* (28 May 1992), 4: *AAS* 85 (1993), 840. **[5](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-5)** SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree on Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 1. **[6](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-6)** *Ibid*. **[7](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-7)** *Ibid*., 4. **[8](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-8)** Cf. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church *Lumen Gentium*, 14. **[9](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-9)** Cf. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Declaration on Religious Freedom *Dignitatis Humanae*, 1 and 2. **[10](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-A)** Cf. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church *Lumen Gentium*, 14. **[11](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-B)** *Ibid*., 8. **[12](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-C)** SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree on Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 3. **[13](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-D)** *Ibid*. **[14](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-E)** No. 15. **[15](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-F)** *Ibid*. **[16](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-G)** SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree on Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 15. **[17](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-H)** *Ibid*., 3. **[18](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-I)** *Ibid*. **[19](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-J)** Cf. SAINT GREGORY THE GREAT, *Homilies on the Gospel*, 19, 1: *PL*, 1154, quoted in SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church *Lumen Gentium*, 2. **[20](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-K)** Cf. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree on Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 4. **[21](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-L)** *Ibid*., 7. **[22](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-M)** Cf. *Ibid*. **[23](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-N)** *Ibid*., 6. **[24](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-O)** Cf. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Dogmatic Constitution *Dei Verbum*, 7. **[25](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-P)** Cf. Apostolic Letter *Euntes in Mundum* (25 January 1988): *AAS* 80 (1988), 935-956. **[26](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-Q)** Cf. Encyclical Epistle *Slavorum Apostoli* (2 June 1985): *AAS* 77 (1985), 779-813. **[27](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-R)** Cf. *Directory for the Application of Principles and Norms on Ecumenism* (25 March 1993): *AAS* 85 (1993), 1039-1119. **[28](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-S)** Cf. in particular, the Lima Document: *Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry* (January 1982); and the study of the JOINT WORKING GROUP BETWEEN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, *Confessing the "One" Faith* (1991), Document No. 153 of the Commission on Faith and Order, Geneva, 1991. **[29](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-T)** Cf. Opening Address of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council (11 October 1962): *AAS* 54 (1962), 793. **[30](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-U)** We are speaking of the SECRETARIAT FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN UNITY, established by Pope John XXIII With the Motu Proprio *Superno Dei Nutu* (5 June 1960), 9: *AAS* 52 (1960), 436, and confirmed by successive documents: JOHN XXIII Motu Proprio *Appropinquante Concilio* (6 August 1962), c. III, a. 7, § 2, I: *AAS* 54 (1962), 614; cf. PAUL VI Apostolic Constitution *Regimini Ecclesiae Universae* (15 August 1967), 92-94: *AAS* 59 (1967), 918-919. This dicastery is now called the PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN UNITY: Cf. JOHN PAUL II, Apostolic Constitution *Pastor Bonus* (28 June 1988), V, Arts. 135-138: *AAS* 80 (1988), 895-896. **[31](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-V)** Opening Address of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council (11 October 1962): *AAS* 54 (1962), 792. **[32](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-W)** Cf. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree on Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 6. **[33](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-X)** SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Declaration on Religious Freedom *Dignitatis Humanae*, 1. **[34](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-Y)** Encyclical Epistle *Slavorum Apostoli* (2 June 1985),11: *AAS* 77 (1985), 792. **[35](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-Z)** *Ibid*., 13: *loc. cit*., 794. **[36](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-10)** *Ibid*., 11: *loc. cit*., 792. **[37](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-11)** Address to the Aboriginal Peoples (29 November 1986), 12: *AAS* 79 (1987), 977. **[38](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-12)** Cf. SAINT VINCENT OF LERINS, *Commonitorium primum*, 23: *PL* 50, 667-668. **[39](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-13)** SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree on Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 6. **[40](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-14)** *Ibi* d., 5. **[41](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-15)** *Ibi* d., 7. **[42](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-16)** *Ibi* d., 8. **[43](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-17)** *Ibi* d. **[44](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-18)** Cf. *Ibid*., 4. **[45](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-19)** Cf. JOHN PAUL II, Apostolic Letter *Tertio Millennio Adveniente* (10 November 1994), 24: *AAS* 87 (1995), 19-20. **[46](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-1A)** Address at Canterbury Cathedral (29 May 1982), 5: *AAS* 74 (1982), 922. **[47](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-1B)** WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, *Constitution and Rules*, III, 1. **[48](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-1C)** SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World *Gaudium et Spes*, 24. **[49](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-1D)** SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree on Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 7. **[50](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-1E)** Maria Sagheddu was born at Dorgali (Sardinia) in 1914. At twenty-one years of age she entered the Trappistine Monastery in Grottaferrata. Through the apostolic labours of Abbé Paul Couturier, she came to understand the need for prayers and spiritual sacrifices for the unity of Christians. In 1936, at the time of an *Octave for Unity*, she chose to offer her life for the unity of the Church. Following a grave illness, Sister Maria Gabriella died on 23 April 1939. **[51](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-1F)** SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World *Gaudium et Spes*, 24. **[52](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-1G)** Cf. *AAS* 56 (1964), 609-659. **[53](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-1H)** Cf. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church *Lumen Gentium*, 13. **[54](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-1I)** SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree On Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 4. **[55](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-1J)** Cf. Code of Canon Law, Canon 755; Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, Canons 902-904. **[56](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-1K)** Cf. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree on Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 4. **[57](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-1L)** SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Declaration on Religious Freedom *Dignitatis Humanae*, 3. **[58](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-1M)** SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree on Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 4. **[59](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-1N)** Cf. *ibid*. **[60](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-1O)** Encyclical Letter *Ecclesiam Suam* (6 August 1964), III: *AAS* 56 (1964), 642. **[61](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-1P)** SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree on Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 11, **[62](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-1Q)** Cf, *ibid*. **[63](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-1R)** *Ibid*.; Cf. CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH, Declaration in Defence of Catholic Doctrine on the Church *Mysterium Ecclesiae* (24 June 1973), 4: *AAS* G5 (1973), 402. **[64](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-1S)** CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH, Declaration in Defence of Catholic Doctrine on the Church *Mysterium Ecclesiae*, 5: *AAS* 65 (1973), 403. **[65](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-1T)** Cf. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree on Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 4. **[66](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-1U)** Cf. Common Christological Declaration between the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East: *L'Osservatore Romano*, 12 November 1994, 1. **[67](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-1V)** SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree on Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 12. **[68](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-1W)** *Ibid*. **[69](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-1X)** PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN UNITY, *Directory for the Application of Principles and Norms on Ecumenism* (25 March 1993), 5: *AAS* 85 (1993), 1040. **[70](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-1Y)** *Ibid*. 94: *loc. cit*., 1078, **[71](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-1Z)** Cf. COMMISSION ON FAITH AND ORDER OF THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, *Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry* (January 1982). **[72](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-20)** Cf. Encyclical Letter *Sollicitudo Rei Socialis* (30 December 1987), 32: *AAS* 80 (1988), 556. **[73](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-21)** Address to the Cardinals and the Roman Curia (28 June 1985), 10: *AAS* 77 (1985), 1158; cf. Encyclical Letter *Redemptor Hominis* (4 March 1979), 11: *AAS* 71 (1979), 277-278. **[74](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-22)** Address to the Cardinals and the Roman Curia (28 June 1985), 10: *AAS* 77 (1985), 1158. **[75](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-23)** Cf. SECRETARIAT FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN UNITY and the EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE UNITED BIBLE SOCIETIES, *Guiding Principles for Interconfessional Cooperation in Translating the Bible* (1968). This was revised and then published by the SECRETARIAT FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN UNITY, "Guidelines for Interconfessional Cooperation in Translating the Bible": *Information Service*, 65 (1987), 140-145. **[76](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-24)** Cf. COMMISSION ON FAITH AND ORDER OF THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, *Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry* (January 1982). **[77](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-25)** For example, at the most recent assemblies of the World Council of Churches in Vancouver (1983) and in Canberra (1991), and of the Commission on Faith and Order in Santiago de Compostela (1993). **[78](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-26)** Cf. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree on Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 8 and 15; *Code of Canon Law*, Canon 844; *Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches*, Canon 671; PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN UNITY, *Directory for the Application of Principles and Norms on Ecumenism* (25 March 1993), 122-125, 129-131, 123 and 132: *AAS* 85 (1993), 1086-1087, 1088-1089, 1087 and 1089. **[79](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-27)** SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree On Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 4. **[80](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-28)** *Ibid*. **[81](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-29)** Cf. No. 15. **[82](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-2A)** No. 15. **[83](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-2B)** *Ibid*., 14. **[84](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-2C)** Cf. Joint Declaration of Pope Paul VI and the Patriarch of Constantinople Athenagoras I (7 December 1965): *Tomos Agapis*, Vatican-Phanar (1958-1970), Rome-Istanbul, 1971, 280-281. **[85](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-2D)** Cf. *AAS* 77 (1985), 779-813. **[86](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-2E)** Cf. *AAS* 80 (1988), 933-956; cf. Message *Magnum Baptismi Donum*, (14 February 1988): *AAS* 80 (1988), 988-997, **[87](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-2F)** SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree On Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 14. **[88](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-2G)** *Ibid*. **[89](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-2H)** Apostolic Brief *Anno Ineunte* (25 July 1967): *Tomos Agapis*, Vatican-Phanar (1958-1970), Rome-Istanbul, 1971, 388-391. **[90](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-2I)** SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree on Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 14. **[91](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-2J)** *Ibid*., 15. **[92](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-2K)** No. 14: *L'Osservatore Romano*, 2-3 May 1995, 3. **[93](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-2L)** SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree on Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 17. **[94](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-2M)** No. 26. **[95](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-2N)** Cf. *Code of Canon Law*, Canon 844, §§ 2 and 3; *Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches*, Canon 671, §§ 2 and 3. **[96](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-2O)** PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN UNITY, *Directory for the Application of Principles and Norms on Ecumenism* (25 March 1993), 122-128: *AAS* 85 (1993), 1086-1088. **[97](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-2P)** Declaration by His Holiness Pope John Paul II and the Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios I (7 December 1987): *AAS* 80 (1988), 253. **[98](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-2Q)** JOINT INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THE THEOLOGICAL DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE ORTHODOX CHURCH, "The Sacrament of Order in the Sacramental Structure of the Church, with Particular Reference to the Importance of the Apostolic Succession for the Sanctification and the Unity of the People of God" (26 June 1988),1: *Information Service*, 68 (1988), 173. **[99](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-2R)** Cf. JOHN PAUL II, Letter to the Bishops of Europe on the Relations between Catholics and Orthodox in the New Situation of Central and Eastern Europe (31 May 1991), 6: *AAS* 84 (1992), 168. **[100](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-2S)** SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree on Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 17. **[101](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-2T)** Cf. Apostolic Letter *Orientale Lumen* (2 May 1995), 24: *L'Osservatore Romano*, 2-3 May 1995, 5. **[102](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-2U)** *Ibid*., 18: *loc. cit*., 4. **[103](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-2V)** Cf. Joint Declaration by His Holiness Pope Paul VI and His Holiness Shenouda III, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark of Alexandria (10 May 1973): *AAS* 65 (1973), 299-301. **[104](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-2W)** Cf. Joint Declaration by His Holiness Pope Paul VI and His Beatitude Mar Ignatius Jacoub III, Patriarch of the Church of Antioch of the Syrians (27 October 1971): *AAS* 63 (1971), 814-815. **[105](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-2X)** Cf. Address to the Delegates of the Coptic Orthodox Church (2 June 1979): *AAS* 71 (1979), 1000-1001. **[106](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-2Y)** Cf. Joint Declaration of Pope John Paul II and the SyrianOrthodox Patriarch of Antioch, Moran More Ignatius Zakka I Iwas (23 June 1984): *Insegnamenti* VII/1 (1984), 1902-1906. **[107](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-2Z)** Address to His Holiness Abuna Paulos, Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia (11 June 1993): *L'Osservatore Romano*, 11-12 June 1993, 4. **[108](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-30)** Cf. Common Christological Declaration between the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East: *L'Osservatore Romano*, 12 November 1994, 1. **[109](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-31)** SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree on Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 19. **[110](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-32)** *Ibid*. **[111](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-33)** *Ibid*., 19. **[112](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-34)** Cf. *ibid*. **[113](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-35)** *Ibid*. **[114](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-36)** *Ibid*., 20. **[115](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-37)** *Ibid*., 21. **[116](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-38)** *Ibid*. **[117](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-39)** *Ibid*. **[118](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-3A)** *Ibid*., 22. **[119](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-3B)** *Ibid*. **[120](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-3C)** *Ibid*., 22; cf. 20. **[121](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-3D)** *Ibid*., 22. **[122](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-3E)** *Ibid*., 23. **[123](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-3F)** *Ibid*. **[124](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-3G)** Cf. Radio Message *Urbi et Orbi* (27 August 1978): *AAS* 70 (1978), 695-696. **[125](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-3H)** SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree on Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 23. **[126](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-3I)** *Ibid*. **[127](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-3J)** Cf. *ibid*., 12. **[128](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-3K)** *Ibid*. **[129](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-3L)** The steady work of the Commission on Faith and Order has led to a comparable vision adopted by the Seventh Assembly of the World Council of Churches in the Canberra Declaration (7-20 February 1991); cf. *Signs of the Spirit*, Official Report, Seventh Assembly, WCC, Geneva, 1991, pp. 235-258. This vision was reaffirmed by the World Conference of Faith and Order at Santiago de Compostela (3-14 August 1993); cf. *Information Service*, 85 (1994), 18-37. **[130](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-3M)** SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree On Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 14. **[131](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-3N)** Cf. *ibid*., 4 and 11. **[132](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-3O)** Cf. Address to the Cardinals and the Roman Curia (28 June 1985), 6: *AAS* 77 (1985), 1153. **[133](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-3P)** Cf. *ibid*. **[134](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-3Q)** Cf. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church *Lumen Gentium*, 12. **[135](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-3R)** Cf. *AAS* 54 (1962), 792. **[136](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-3S)** Cf. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree on Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 6, **[137](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-3T)** Cf. *ibid*., 4; PAUL VI, Homily for the Canonization of the Ugandan Martyrs (18 October 1964): *AAS* 56 (1964), 906. **[138](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-3U)** Cf. JOHN PAUL II, Apostolic Letter *Tertio Millennio Adveniente* (10 November 1994), 37: *AAS* 87 (1995), 29-30. **[139](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-3V)** Cf. PAUL VI, Address at the Shrine in Namugongo, Uganda (2 August 1969): *AAS* 61 (1969), 590-591. **[140](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-3W)** Cf. *Missale Romanum, Praefatio de Sanctis I*: Sanctorum "coronando merita tua dona coronans", **[141](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-3X)** Cf. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree on Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 4. **[142](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-3Y)** Cf. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church *Lumen Gentium*, 8. **[143](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-3Z)** Cf. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree on Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 3. **[144](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-40)** After the Lima Document of the Commission on Faith and Order, *Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry* (January 1982), and in the spirit of the Declaration of the Seventh General Assembly of the World Council of Churches, *The Unity of the Church as "koinonia": Gift and Task* (Canberra, 7-20 February 1991): cf. *Istina* 36 (1991), 389-391. **[145](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-41)** Address to the Cardinals and the Roman Curia (28 June 1985), 4: *AAS* 77 (1985), 1151-1152. **[146](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-42)** SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church *Lumen Gentium*, 23. **[147](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-43)** Cf. Discourse at the Headquarters of the World Council of Churches, Geneva (12 June 1984), 2: *Insegnamenti* VII/1 (1984), 1686. **[148](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-44)** WORLD CONFERENCE OF THE COMMISSION ON FAITH AND ORDER, Report of the Second Section, Santiago de Compostela (1993): *Confessing the One Faith to God's Glory*, 31, 2, Faith and Order Paper No. 166, World Council of Churches, Geneva, 1994, 243. **[149](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-45)** To cite only a few examples: ANGLICAN-ROMAN CATHOLIC INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION, *Final Report*, ARCIC-I (September 1981); INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE DISCIPLES OF CHRIST AND THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, *Report* (1981); ROMAN CATHOLIC/LUTHERAN JOINT COMMISSION, *The Ministry in the Church* (13 March 1981). The problem takes clear shape in the research conducted by the JOINT INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THE THEOLOGICAL DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE ORTHODOX CHURCH. **[150](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-46)** Address to the Cardinals and the Roman Curia (28 June 1985), 3: *AAS* 77 (1985), 1150. **[151](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-47)** *Sermon XLVI*, 30: *CCL* 41, 557. **[152](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-48)** Cf. FIRST VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Christ *Pastor Aeternus: DS* 3074. **[153](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-49)** SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church *Lumen Gentium*, 27. **[154](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-4A)** SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree On Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 14. **[155](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-4B)** Homily in the Vatican Basilica in the presence of Dimitrios I, Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch (6 December 1987), 3; *AAS* 80 (1988), 714. **[156](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-4C)** Apostolic Exhortation *Evangelii Nuntiandi* (8 December 1975), 77: *AAS* 68 (1976), fig; cf. SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree on Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 1; PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN UNITY, *Directory for the Application of Principles and Norms on Ecumenism* (25 March 1993), 205-209: *AAS* 85 (1993), 1112-1114. **[157](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-4D)** Address to the Cardinals and the Roman Curia (28 June 1985), 4: *AAS* 77 (1985), 1151. **[158](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-4E)** Letter of 13 January 1970: *Tomos Agapis*, Vatican-Phanar (1958-1970), Rome-Istanbul, 1971, pp. 610-611. **[159](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-4F)** Apostolic Letter *Tertio Millennio Adveniente* (10 November 1994), 20: *AAS* 87 (1995), 17. **[160](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-4G)** Cf. *Code of Canon Law*, Canon 755; *Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches*, Canon 902. **[161](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-4H)** SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, Decree on Ecumenism *Unitatis Redintegratio*, 5. **[162](https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/#-4I)** *On the Lord's Prayer*, 23: *CSEL* 3, 284-285. --- ![[maps/bibliography#^biblio-jpii-uus]] --- > [[jpii-uus-04|← Previous]] | [[ut-unum-sint-toc|TOC]]