[An Nahar] Pope Francis and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby will meet on Friday for the first time since the two men became the heads of their respective churches in March, the Vatican said.Welby, the leader of the world's 80 million Anglicans, will also visit the tombs of St Peter and John Paul II at St Peter's Basilica, the Vatican said in a statement Monday, adding that he will be accompanied by his wife Caroline.
He will also meet Swiss cardinal Kurt Koch, head of the Vatican's Council for Christian Unity.
Francis's predecessor Benedict XVI enjoyed generally good relations with his Anglican counterpart
Rowan Williams... sometimes known as the Archdruid of Canterbury, an indifferent theologian and a poor communicator, so obtuse as to occasionally be mistaken for brilliant but chock full of bland New Agey Feel-Goodisms ...
, though relations were strained by a Vatican move to make it easier for disaffected Anglicans to switch to the generally more conservative Catholic Church.