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By Anita Snow
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HAVANA — Ecumenical
Patriarch Bartholomew I was
greeted by President Fidel Castro
as he arrived in Cuba Wednesday
night, the first visit by a Christian
Orthodox spiritual leader to
Latin America.
Dressed in his traditional
black robes and cap and carry
ing his patriarchal staff, the
patriarch of Tfie world’s 300
million Orthodox Christians
was also greeted by scores of
faithful from around the region
when he arrived after the long
flight from Istanbul.
Castro, wearing his olive
green uniform and cap, greeted
the patriarch at the bottom of
the plane’s steps. Together they
walked down a red carpet,
greeting diplomats, Cuban offi
cials, local Orthodox Christian
leaders and representatives of
Cuba’s Roman Catholic and
Protestant churches.
The patriarch and the presi
dent also greeted a small group of
children dressed in white, who
gave them bouquets of roses. A
choir sang sacred songs in liturgi
cal Greek.
After posing briefly for news
photographers and television
cameramen, the pair boarded a
black Mercedes Benz sedan for
the trip to the Palace of the
Revolution — where Castro
keeps his offices — for an offi
cial welcoming ceremony.
Neither man spoke to reporters
at the airport.
The patriarch was invited to
Cuba by Castro, whose govern
ment built a Byzantine cathedral
the patriarch will consecrate on
Sunday. The church was offered
as a gift to Orthodox Christians.
“We thank the people of
Cuba for this gift,” Metropolitan
Athenagoras, regional leader of
the Greek Orthodox Church,
said of the new sanctuary on
Tuesday. Greek Orthodox offi
cials said it was the first new
church of any faith to be built on
the Caribbean island during
Castro’s 45-year rule.
“It is with much respect that
we receive the pauiarch. whose
visit Constitutes a gesture of
friendship toward Cuba,” Foreign
Minister Felipe Perez Roque told
reporters earlier Wednesday.
Perez Roque said the visit
would show the world “that in
Cuba there is freedom to express
religion, a faith, and there is a
commitment by the government
to support that right.”
Cuban officials take issue with
a State Department report issued
last month, which said surveil
lance, infiltration and harassment
of religious groups is common on
the island.
While Cuba became officially
atheist in the years after the 1959
revolution that brought Castro to
power, the government removed
references to atheism in the
Constitution more than a decade
ago and allowed religious believ
ers to join the Communist Party.
Before that, religious believers
struggled under a system that dis
couraged — but never outright
prohibited — religious worship.
Believers were barred from
important jobs and viewed with
suspicion by officials who over
saw most aspects of life.
Relations between the
Roman Catholic Church and the
government warmed in early
1998 with the visit of Pope John
Paul II. But Cuba's Catholic
leaders continue to push for the
right to open parochial schools
for children and access to state-
controlled media.
Bartholomew is the patriarch
of Greek Orthodox Christians
and considered “first among
equals” of 14 patriarchs repre
senting Orthodox Christian con
gregations in eastern Europe and
the Middle East, including
Russia, Bulgaria. Romania.
Ukraine. Syria and Iraq.
The Orthodox faith is little
known in Cuba, as well as the rest
of Latin America, where Roman
Catholicism has long been the
dominant church.
Eastern Orthodoxy and
Roman Catholicism split nearly a
millennium ago over questions of
theology and papal authority.
The new church of cream-col
ored stone with red brick trim
was built alongside the Roman
Catholic San Francisco Basilica
in Old Havana. It will he used by
the island’s estimated 2.00()
Orthodox Christians. who
include diplomats and foreign
business people from countries
such as Greek and Turkey, and
people who immigrated here
before the fall of communism in
former Soviet states and Eastern
European countries including
Russia, Ukraine and Bulgaria.
An estimated 500 Greek-
Americans are expected in Cuba
for the consecration, along with
scores more Orthodox faithful
from around the region.
Metropolitan Athenagoras said.
The patriarch’s visit coincides
with a trip here by the National
Council of Churches U.S.A.,
which represents many mainline
American Christian groups.
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