800-Year Delayed Apology over Constantinople Crusade Invasion

Society | April 13, 2004, Tuesday // 00:00
800-Year Delayed Apology over Constantinople Crusade Invasion Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew was approached by the Vatican for apology over plunder of Constantinople by crusaders 800 years ago. Photo by MPA.

The Vatican has pledged apology from the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew over the crusade invasion into Constantinople 800 years ago.

On April 13, 1204, then Tuesday, the Latin warriors of the Fourth Crusade seized and plundered Constantinople, the then capital of the Byzantine Empire. Till 1261 Constantinople was a capital of the Latin Empire.

The Archbishop of Lyon Philippe Barbarin visited the Ecumenical Patriarch and expressed the "shame" by the Catholic Church for this sad day for Orthodoxy.

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