King and Queen to satisfy Pope Leo on rearranged Vatican go to

[ad_1] King Charles III and Queen Camilla will meet Pope Leo XIV as a part of a state go to to the Vatican in October.

A earlier official go to to the Vatican was postponed earlier this yr due to the poor well being of the pontiff's predecessor, Pope Francis.

The King and Queen paid a quick non-public go to to Pope Francis in April on their twentieth wedding ceremony anniversary, in what proved to be one of many late pope's final conferences with a high-profile customer earlier than he died later that month.

The rearranged go to, introduced by Buckingham Palace, will emphasise the pleasant relations between the Catholic Church and the Church of England, of which the King is supreme governor.

The main points for the go to haven't but been introduced, however it should fall throughout a particular "jubilee" yr for the Catholic Church, held each 25 years, with the King and Queen to hitch Pope Leo beneath the theme of "pilgrims of hope".

The King has labored for a few years to construct bridges between faiths and the go to is an indication of togetherness between the Catholic and Anglican traditions.

Earlier this month, the primary Catholic funeral for a member of the Royal Household in trendy occasions was held for the Duchess of Kent. The King and Queen attended her Requiem Mass .

Additionally this month, the King went to the Oratory of St Philip Neri in Birmingham, based by the nineteenth Century Catholic theologian and thinker, St John Henry Newman. The King, then the Prince of Wales, had beforehand attended the canonisation of Cardinal Newman in Rome in 2019.

The King and Queen's non-public assembly with Pope Francis in April 2025 fell throughout their state go to to Italy.

The assembly - on the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta, the place Pope Francis had been convalescing - lasted 20 minutes, with Buckingham Palace saying how "deeply touched" that they had been by the Pope's "sort remarks" on their wedding ceremony anniversary.