Anglican Old Catholic relations
In 1998 the Anglican Old Catholic International Coordinating Committee was established by the Old Catholic International Bishops' Conference and the Anglican Consultative Council to monitor and encourage the development of the relationship between the Churches involved.
In its Resolution IV:6c, the 1998 Lambeth Conference sought to recommend that ‘consideration be given to ways of deepening our communion with the Old Catholic Churches beyond the Bonn Agreement, including means of taking counsel and making decisions together; the anomaly of overlapping jurisdictions; the implications of wider ecumenical relationships (particularly with the Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Lutheran Churches); and the importance of working together in issues of mission and common witness.'
Anglican
Co-chairman: The Right Reverend Jonathan Gledhill Bishop of Lichfield
Co-secretary: The Reverend Canon Dr. Alyson Barnett-Cowan
Anglican Communion Office,Contact: The Right Reverend David Hamid Suffragan Bishop Diocese in Europe
Old Catholic
Co-chairman: The Right Reverend Joachim Vobbe
Contact: c/o The Reverend Professor Dr Angela Berlis
Co-secretary: The Reverend Professor Dr Angela Berlis
T: +41 41 631 4193This family of nationally organized Churches bound themselves together in the Union of Utrecht in 1889. Most of them owe their origins to Roman Catholics unable to accept the decrees of the First Vatican Council of 1870, though the independence from Rome of the See of Utrecht predates those events. In 1932 the Convocation of Canterbury established 'intercommunion' between the Church of England and the Old Catholic Churches on the terms of the Bonn Agreement of the previous year. The Archbishop of Utrecht is the chairman of the coordinating Episcopal body of the Union: the Old Catholic International Bishops’ Conference.
Website: www.utrechter-union.org
The Old Catholic Church of Austria
Website: www.altkatholiken.at
Bishop: The Right Reverend Dr John Okoro
Schottenring 17/1/3/12,The Old Catholic Church of the Czech Republic
Website: www.starokatolici.cz
Bishop: The Right Reverend ThMgr Dusan Hejbal
Na Bateriich 27,A Covenant was signed in September 2000, between the Bishop in Europe and the Bishop of the Old Catholic Church in the Czech Republic, by which they (and their successors after them) share pastoral oversight of the Anglican parish in Prague.
The Old Catholic Church of Germany
Website: www.alt-katholisch.de (some of which is available in English translation)
Bishop: The Right Reverend Dr Matthias Ring
Gregor-Mendel-Strasse 28,The Old Catholic Church of Netherlands
Archbishop of Utrecht: The Most Reverend Dr Joris Vercammen
Kon.Wilhelminalaan 3,Bishop of Haarlem: The Right Reverend Dick Schoon
Poland (The Polish National Catholic Church)
Website: www.polskokatolicki.pl
Presiding Bishop and Diocese of Warzaw: The Most Revd Wiktor Wysoczanski
ul.Wilcza 31/16c,The Old Catholic Church of Switzerland
Website: www.christkath.ch
Bishop: The Right Reverend Dr Harald Rein
Willadingweg 39,Dependent churches and municipalities under the jurisdiction of the International Bishop’s Conference and their respective IBC delegates:
The Old Catholic Church of Croatia - Bishop Dr John Okoro
Old Catholic Mission in France - Bishop Dr Joris Vercamen
Old Catholic Church in Sweden and Denmark - Bishop Dick Schoon
The St Willibrord Society exists to promote growing relations between Anglicans and Old Catholics.
More details can be obtained from The Revd Ariadne van den Hof Secretary
Christ Church Vicarage,Formal sessions of discussions between the four Anglican Churches of Britain and Ireland and the eight Nordic-Baltic Lutheran Churches began in 1989. In 1992 the Eucharist was celebrated in Porvoo on the final Sunday of the Conversations. The Common Statement recommended a Declaration bringing into being formalized communion involving common membership, a single interchangeable ministry, and structures to enable consultation on significant matters of faith and order. Implementation is coordinated by a Contact Group and a regular Porvoo Church Leaders Conference. The Church of England has its own Porvoo Panel to monitor and encourage our own implementation of the Agreement.
The Common Statement and other Porvoo-related documents are available from Church House Publishing. Lars Osterlin: Churches of Northern Europe in Profile (Norwich, 1995) gives a history of the Nordic Lutheran Churches and their relations with the Church of England.
Website: www.porvoochurches.org
Denmark, Church of
Website: www.folkekirken.dk
Porvoo Contact Group Observer: Mr Jan Nilsson
Council on International Relations of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Denmark,
Peter Bangs Vej l D,Estonia, Evangelical-Lutheran Church of
Website: www.eelk.ee
Archbishop: The Most Reverend Andres Poder
Porvoo Contact Group Representative: The Reverend Veiko Vihuri
Karja kirikla,Finland, Evangelical-Lutheran Church of
Website: www.evl.fi/english
Archbishop of Turku and Finland: The Most Reverend Dr. Kari Makinen
Porvoo Contact Group Representative: The Reverend Dr Tomi Karttunen
POB 185,Iceland, Evangelical-Lutheran Church of
Website: www.kirkjan.is/?english
Bishop: The Most Reverend Karl Sigurbjörnsson
Porvoo Contact Group Representative: The Reverend Steinunn A. Björnsdottir
Biskupsstofa,Lithuania, Evangelical-Lutheran Church of
Bishop: The Right Reverend Mindaugas Sabutis
Porvoo Contact Group Representative: The Reverend Darius Petkunas
Simonaitytes 18-21,Norway, Church of
Website: www.kirken.no/english
Bishop: The Right Reverend Olav Skjevesland
Porvoo Contact Group Representative: Ms Beate Fagerli
Church of Norway Council on Ecumenical and International Relations
Postboks 799 - Sentrum,Sweden, Church of
Website: www.svenskakyrkan.se
Archbishop: The Most Reverend Anders Wejryd
Porvoo Contact Group Representative: The Reverend Dr Christopher Meakin
Ecumenical officer,The following Churches were full participants in the preparatory work of the Porvoo Declaration. They both have observer status at any meeting held under the provisions of the Agreement.
Latvia, Evangelical-Lutheran Church of
Website: www.lelb.lv/en
Archbishop: The Most Reverend Janis Vanags
Porvoo Contact Group Observer: Dr Sandra Gintere
Consistory of the ELCL,The Lutheran Church in Great Britain
Website: www.lutheran.org.uk
Bishop: The Right Reverend Jana-Jeruma-Grinberga
Porvoo contact group representative: The Reverend Thomas Bruch
30 Thanet Street,The Group was inaugurated to monitor and encourage the development of the relationship between the Churches involved.
Anglican
Co-Chairman: The Right Reverend Martin Wharton Bishop of Newcastle
Bishop’s House,Lutheran
Co-Chairman: The Right Reverend Karl Sigurbjornsson, Bishop of Iceland
Bishop’s Office,Co-secretary: The Reverend Dr Matti Repo (Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Finland)
Diocesan Chapter,England, Church of: (Porvoo Contact Group Representative for the Diocese in Europe)
The Venerable Jonathan LLoyd based in Copenhagen
England, Church of: General
The Reverend Prebendary Dr Leslie Nathaniel
Council for Christian Unity,Estonia, Evangelical-Lutheran Church of
The Reverend Veiko Vihuri
Finland, Evangelical-Lutheran Church of
The Reverend Dr Tomi Karttunen (co-secretary of the Contact Group)
Iceland, Evangelical-Lutheran Church of
The Reverend Steinunn A. Björnsdottir
Ireland, Church of
The Revd John McDowell,
St Mark's Rectory,Lithuania, Evangelical-Lutheran Church of
The Reverend Darius Petkunas
Lusitanian Church (Portugal)
The Right Reverend Fernando Soares
Norway, Church of
Ms Beate Fagerli
Scottish Episcopal Church
Elspeth Davey,
General Synod Office,Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church
The Right Reverend Carlos López Lozano
Sweden, Church of
The Reverend Dr Christopher Meakin
Wales, Church in
The Revd Gwynn ap Gwilym,
39 Cathedral Road,Latvia
Dr Sandra Gintere
Consistory of the ELCL,The Lutheran Church in Great Britain
Rt Rev´d Jana Jeruma-Grinberga
LCiGB Office 27 Tavistock Square,In 2000 the Church of England’s Council for Christian Unity established the Porvoo Panel to monitor, encourage and guide relations specifically between the Nordic-Baltic Churches of the Agreement and the Church of England.
Officers:
Chairman: The Right Reverend David Hamid (Suffragan Bishop in Europe)
14 Tufton Street,Secretary: The Reverend Dr Leslie Nathaniel (European Secretary)
Council for Christian Unity,