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The Porvoo Communion is a communion of 15 predominantly northern European Anglican and Evangelical Lutheran churches, with a couple of far-southwestern European ...
It established the Porvoo Communion, so named after the Porvoo Cathedral where the Eucharist was celebrated on the final Sunday of the conversations leading to the Statement. The old city of Porvoo was formally disestablished and the new city of Porvoo founded in 1997, when the city of Porvoo and the rural municipality of Porvoo were ...
The church is a member of the Lutheran World Federation and the Porvoo Communion, but has not signed the Leuenberg Agreement. The faith of the Church is pronounced in the three confessions of the old church (Apostles' Creed, Nicene Creed and Athanasian Creed) and the Lutheran confessional documents as defined in the Book of Concord. [40] [41]
Porvoo Communion: Anglican Lutheran: 1992 Porvoo Cathedral, Porvoo, Finland Co-chairmen Bishop Peter Skov-Jakobsen, Archbishop Michael Jackson: None Europe 50,000,000 [4] Communion of Anglican and Lutheran denominations in Europe. Communion of Protestant Churches in Europe: Lutheran Reformed Methodist: 1973 Hölstein, Switzerland Secretary ...
A member of the Porvoo Communion, the church professes Lutheranism. It is composed of thirteen dioceses, divided into parishes. [9] It is an open national church which, working with a democratic organisation together with the ministry of the church, covers the whole nation.
The ELCL is a member of the Porvoo Communion and the Lutheran World Federation. In 2018 the ELCL reported having 19,000 active members. [1] There are 52 congregations, and around 30 ordained clergy, including the bishop and two deacons. [2] The current bishop (Lithuanian: Vyskupas) of the church is the Rt Revd Mindaugas Sabutis. [3]
Werkström was active in the creation of the Porvoo Communion, which is a recognition and an agreement of unity between Lutheran churches in the Nordic and Baltic countries and Anglican churches on the British Isles. The so-called Porvoo agreement was signed in 1992 in the city of Porvoo in Finland.
The church is a member of Communion of Protestant Churches in Europe, having signed the Leuenberg Agreement with other Lutheran and Reformed churches in 1973. It is also a member of the Porvoo Communion with 12 other churches, among them, the Anglican churches of Europe.