Ahmed el-Tayeb
His meeting with the Russian Orthodox patriarch was the first such for a pope since the 11th Century East–West Schism. And a meeting with Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, the highest authority in Sunni Islam, could not have come about without Francis' numerous conciliatory gestures toward the Muslim world, including his visiting migrants on the island of Lesbos and bringing three Syrian Muslim families back to the Vatican City. Francis' visit to the Arabian Peninsula, the home of Islam, was a historic first for a pope, of immense significance, bringing hope for "a new era of religious tolerance in the Gulf”. Francis has also reached out to the Pentecostal churches, "a new and heretofore scarcely imaginable step forward". He is also the first Pope to meet with the leader of the Mormons, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.