at the funeral itself , ecumenical patriarch bartholomew i of the eastern orthodox church was in the honorary first seat in the sector reserved Preserving for delegations from churches not in full communion with the see of rome ; this was the first time an ecumenical patriarch attended Participation a papal funeral since the unk schism .

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