Porvoo Communion
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The Porvoo Communion is the community formed through an agreement between twelve European Christian churches, none of which is in communion with the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Churches. The agreement, entitled The Porvoo Common Statement, establishes full communion between and among the churches. The agreement was negotiated in 1992 in the town of Järvenpää in Finland. The name comes from the town of Porvoo where there was a joint celebration of Holy Communion after the formal signing in Järvenpää. The reason for this is because it was thought that people from foreign countries would find it hard to say Järvenpää, and for this reason the joint celebration was in Porvoo to make it possible to call the act after Porvoo and make pronouncing it easier.
The churches involved are the Church of Ireland, the Anglican churches in Great Britain, the Lutheran national churches of the Nordic countries and the Lutheran churches of the Baltic countries of Estonia and Lithuania. Later negotiations brought the Anglican Communion churches of the Iberian Peninsula into the agreement.
The Protestant Lutheran churches of central and western Europe don't participate because they lack the historic continuity of the episcopate.
Signatories of the Porvoo Communion:
- The Church of England
- The Church of Ireland
- The Scottish Episcopal Church
- The Church in Wales
- The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland
- The Church of Norway
- The Church of Sweden (formerly a state-church)
- The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
- The Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church
- The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lithuania
- The Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church of Portugal
- The Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church
Other churches involved as observers:
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