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October 17, 1996

Episcopal and Lutheran Bishops Energized by Concordat's Plan for Full Communion

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Episcopal News Service

[Episcopal and Lutheran Bi...]
Episcopal and Lutheran Bishops Meet to Discuss Full Communion. Over 200 bishops from the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America met for the first time October 3-8 to discuss proposals for full communion between the two churches. Presiding bishops of the two churches, Edmond Browning (left) and H. George Anderson (right) welcomed Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey (left center) and Dr. Martin Marty, the University of Chicago historian, to the historic meeting. (Episcopal News Service photo by James H. Thrall)