Archbishop Carey Plans to Visit the Vatican in May
Episcopal News Service. February 7, 1992 [92036B]
Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey will travel to Rome in May to visit Pope John Paul II in what Vatican officials have billed as "an informal get-to-know-you" meeting. Carey will go as primate of the Church of England rather than as head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and he and the pope will use the occasion to discuss relations been Canterbury and the Vatican. The meeting will take place on the eve of the Church of England's vote on the ordination of women, an issue that continues to be a stumbling block to closer communion between the two churches.