A tight schedule, which will have its highlight in the private audience with the Pope on November 23rd to celebrate the meeting between Paul VI and the Anglican leader Michael Ramsey of forty years ago. The visit of Rowan Williams, the theological leader of the "Church of England" founded by Henry VIII and of the Anglican communion, is going to start on November 21st with a lecture at the Papal University of Sant’Anselmo, called “Saint Benedict and the future of Europe”. On Wednesday evening (at 7 pm), the archbishop of Canterbury will meet the community of Sant’Egidio at a religious service that will commemorate the martyrdom of seven members of the "Anglican Melanesian Order". On Thursday, the private audience with the Pope. In the afternoon (at 6 pm), a lecture at the Papal Academy of Social Science on "Laicism, freedom and faith”. On Friday 24th, the final press conference at Palazzo Doria Pamphili, and in the afternoon a service in the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva to be attended by the Catholic primate of England and Wales, card. Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, and cardinal Walter Kasper. Williams will be there with his wife Jane, the archbishop Peter Carnley, co-chairman of the “Arcic” commission for inter-religious dialogue, the bishop David Beetge, co-chairman of the “Iarccum” commission, and the bishop John Flack, representing the archbishop to the Holy See.
