SUMMARY:
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DELEGATION FROM ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE TO VISIT ROME
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TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS AT VATICAN TELEVISION
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AUDIENCES
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DELEGATION
FROM ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE TO VISIT ROME
Vatican
City, 27 June 2013 (VIS) – The Pontifical Council for Promoting
Christian Unity issued a press release today with the information
that a delegation sent by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Bartholomew I will visit Rome from 27 to 29 June 2013 as part of the
traditional exchange of delegations for their feasts of patron
saints—29 June in Rome for the celebration of the Apostles Peter
and Paul and 30 November in Istanbul for the celebration of St.
Andrew the Apostle.
His
Eminence Metropolitan Ioannis (Zizioulas) of Pergamo, co-president of
the International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the
Catholic and Orthodox Churches, will head the delegation and will be
accompanied by His Eminence Athenagoras (Yves Peckstadt), bishop of
Sinope and auxiliary of the metropolitan of Belgium, and
Archimandrite Fr. Prodromos Xenakis, vice secretary of the Holy
Eparchial Synod of the Church of Crete.
On
Friday, 28 June, the Patriarchate's delegation will be received by
the Holy Father Francis and then will talk with the Pontifical
Council for Promoting Christian Unity. On Saturday, 29 June, the
delegation's members will attend a Eucharistic celebration presided
by the Holy Father.
TECHNOLOGICAL
INNOVATIONS AT VATICAN TELEVISION
Vatican
City, 27 June 2013 (VIS) – This morning in the Holy See Press
Office, there was a presentation of the agreement between Vatican
Television and Canal 21 (the television channel of the Archdiocese of
Buenos Aires, Argentina) as well as of the new Master Control Room
that will make digital archiving possible. Speaking at the press
conference were: Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, president of the
Pontifical Council for Social Communications; Msgr. Dario Edoardo
Vigano, director of Vatican Television; Julio Rimoldi, director of
Canal 21; and Stefano D'Agostini of Vatican Television.
Vatican
Television is in the process of completely digitizing its television
signals. The project, already begun with the acquisition of a high
def mobile unit, is continuing with the building, in collaboration
with Sony, of a new Master Control Room on the top floor of the
Vatican Television building, which will be the hub of the signals.
The
new, technologically advanced structure will allow the transformation
into and usage of the signals as “files”, with clear advantages
for their exchange and storage.
The
entire process, from shooting, to editing, to archiving, will become
“tapeless”, that is, without the use of the magnetic tapes that
are still the weak point in the creation and maintenance of valuable
archives such as Vatican Television's, which holds 30 years of images
from the pontificates of John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and now Pope
Francis.
The
agreement with Canal 21, which allows Vatican Television to acquire
and distribute the Argentinian channel's large archives covering the
activities of Cardinal Bergoglio up to 13 March 2013, the day of his
election to the throne of Peter, is also part of this initiative.
AUDIENCES
Vatican
City, 27 June 2013 (VIS) – Today the Holy Father received:
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Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi, president of the Prefecture for the
Economic Affairs of the Holy See, and
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Ms. Ertharin Cousin, executive director of the World Food Programme
(WFO).
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