Canadian Lutherans Move Toward Full Communion with Anglicans
Episcopal News Service. October 19, 1995 [95-1273B]
(ENS) The national convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) recently approved a recommendation that lay people of the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC) and the ELCIC be able to move freely between each other's churches as the two bodies move toward full communion by 2001. Responding to the convention action, ACC Archbishop Michael Peers asked bishops of both churches to invite neighboring Lutheran and Anglican congregations to commit themselves to undertake at least one joint project and celebrate at least one joint communion service yearly. The second was to request that both bodies develop structures for evaluating and improving the ministry of the bishop. Peers acknowledged that not all Anglican bishops would allow Lutheran pastors to serve congregants in the Anglican Church.