Pope to pray with Anglican leader on historic visit

By Gildas le Roux (AFP)
posted Sept. 17, 2010

LONDON — Pope Benedict XVI will hold joint prayers with the leader of the world's Anglicans on Friday in a symbolic act of unity on day two of a historic state visit.

The head of the Roman Catholic Church will also attend a service at London's Westminster Abbey led by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and meet with him at Lambeth Palace, the Anglican archbishop's London residence.

It is a day of firsts for the 83-year-old pope: no pontiff has visited Lambeth Palace or visited the historic abbey since the foundation of the Church of England when king Henry VIII broke with Rome in 1534. the rest

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