Huber indicated that in future it will be necessary to carefully assess "the points we have in common and the ones which divide us". He then added: "It is important for us to know that Pope Benedict XVI has placed Christian unity as a priority of his pontificate. We have also appreciated what he said today on unity in multiplicity and he said he is not tied to an ecumenism of return. These statements make us see future steps which will be achieved some time which is still unknown to us". "I am moved said the Orthodox Metropolitan Augoustinos Labardakis because the Holy Father was my professor in the past. With ecumenism, without the work with other Churches there would not be the Orthodox in Germany".
