Ecumenical Officers to Meet as National Workshop for Christian Unity
Diocesan Press Service. April 25, 1969 [76-10]
NEW YORK, N.Y. (DPS) -- For the first time, area ecumenical officers of the major American Christian communions will meet together.
The occasion will be the National Workshop for Christian Unity, to be held in Philadelphia, June 15-19, and hosted by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The communions are the Episcopal Church, the United Presbyterian Church, the United Methodist Church, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the United Church of Christ, several Lutheran bodies and the Roman Catholic Church.
Keynoting the Workshop will be Cardinal-designate Jan Willebrands, recently named President of the Secretariat of Christian Unity. Among other noted speakers will be the Rt. Rev. Robert Stopford, D. D., Anglican Bishop of London, and the Rev. Johann Metz, German theologian.
Supplementing the addresses and workshops will be a Unity Procession to a Black Baptist Church; liturgical observances at a Black Baptist Church, at St. George's Greek Orthodox Church, at the Cathedral of SS Peter and Paul (with John Cardinal Krol, Archbishop of Philadelphia, as officiant), and at the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. There also will be an historical and ecumenical tour of Old Philadelphia.
Each communion will also have the opportunity to meet separately to consider issues pertinent to their situation.