For the first time in five centuries, an Anglican British monarch and the leader of the Roman Catholic church prayed together in public. King Charles III, the nominal head of the Church of England, joined Pope Leo XIV in an ecumenical service at the Sistine Chapel during a state visit to the Vatican Oct.

King Charles III and Queen Camilla met with Pope Leo XIV on Thursday. The trio met during an audience at the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. They then went to the Sistine Chapel where, for the first time in 500 years, a King of England and a pope prayed together.

History was made in the Sistine Chapel on Thursday as Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III prayed side by side, the first such meeting since the Protestant Reformation.

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King Charles has become the first British monarch to pray with a pope at the Vatican since the Catholic and Anglican churches split up five centuries ago.

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