Andrew and dialogue with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, who visited Rome on the feast of Peter and Paul, June 30.

Last year, 34 congregants sued the archdiocese arguing that alterations made in 2003 to the church's charter had not been correctly approved by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.

Bringing greetings from Archbishop Gregory Venables, primate of the Anglican province of the Southern Cone of South America, Argentine ecumenical patriarch Elias Crisostomo Abramides described the effects of climate change in Argentina, from melting and receding glaciers to eroding coastlines, as well as intensifying desertification and increasing outbreaks of tropical diseases such as malaria and dengue fever in formerly temperate zones.