Canadian Anglicans and Lutherans Call for Full Communion
Episcopal News Service. June 15, 1994 [94116F]
Members of the dialogue between Anglicans and Lutherans in Canada have issued a call for the two churches to work toward "full communion" by 2001. The biennial meetings of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and the Anglican Church of Canada will be asked in 1995 to endorse the process leading to full communion and in the meantime allow bishops to use clergy of the other church where appropriate. And they will be asked to encourage local congregations of the two churches to undertake joint projects of education, mission and service. The proposals come at a time of increasingly close cooperation between Anglicans and Lutherans in many parts of the world, including proposals for full communion in Europe, the United States and Africa.