Conference Explores Issue of Validity of Anglican Orders
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Episcopal News Service Patricia Lefevere, Freelance Writer from New Jersey
Conference on Orders Explores Ties to Catholicism. The Conference on Anglican Orders at the
General Seminary in New York City drew Anglican and Roman Catholic scholars for a series of
presentations on the historical ties and differences between the two churches. On the steps of the
seminary's Chapel of the Good Shepherd, are, from left to right, Professor R. William Franklin,
conference chair and professor of church history at the General Seminary; Canon Stephen
Platten, the Archbishop of Canterbury's secretary for ecumenical affairs; and the Rev. Tim
Galligan of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, Vatican City. (ENS photo by Bruce Parker
of General Theological Seminary)
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