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Little evidence so far that Anglican leaders plan to join GAFCON in leaving Anglican Communion The GAFCON statement’s potential impact was evident as soon as it landed Oct. 16. It immediately provoked intense reactions in Anglican circles around the world. The conservative Christian network, a...
23.10.2025 22:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fraternity and hope strengthen relations between Catholics and Anglicans Perspectives on the visit of the British Royal Family to the Vatican by Archbishop Pace, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, and Bishop Ball, director of the Anglican...
23.10.2025 15:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pope Leo and King Charles make history with first-ever joint prayer service in Sistine Chapel King Charles III and Queen Camilla of the United Kingdom were received in a private audience by Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace this morning, Oct. 23, during...
23.10.2025 12:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
King Charles and the Catholic ‘hand of history’ It is now 40 years since King Charles, as Prince of Wales, planned with the help of Vatican officials and the full support of Robert Runcie, who was then Archbishop...
19.10.2025 21:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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GAFCON says its members will leave Anglican Communion to form rival network The conservative Anglican network GAFCON, a mix of leaders from Anglican provinces and breakaway groups, released a statement Oct. 16 saying it would disengage from the Anglican Communion’s existing deliberative...
17.10.2025 12:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A message to the Anglican Communion from the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, the Rt Revd Dame Sarah Mullally A message of joy and hope to the Anglican Communion from the next Archbishop of Canterbury - The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally DBE. 'Dear sisters and...
03.10.2025 10:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally DBE to become 106th Archbishop of Canterbury His Majesty The King has approved the nomination of the Bishop of London, the Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally, as the next Archbishop of Canterbury, Downing Street...
02.10.2025 22:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Scanning is becoming easier Scanning is becoming easier. The earliest scans in this archive were made in 2008 using a flatbed scanner. 18,000 individual JPEGs were later inserted into PDF files for posting. By...
09.06.2025 18:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pope reaffirms commitment to ecumenical, interreligious dialogue During a special audience with religious leaders who came to Rome for the inauguration of his papal ministry, Pope Leo XIV vowed to continue working towards Christian unity and promoting...
19.05.2025 08:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Through papal funeral, Christ proclaimed living Saviour for all Bishop Philip Freier was Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia from 2006 until February 2025. I thought that travelling to Thursday Island in the Torres Strait was a big trip to...
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A Statement from the Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome and the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Representative to the Holy See Together with our Roman Catholic siblings and other Christians in Rome and around the world, Anglicans enthusiastically, welcome the 'gaudium magnum' announced yesterday from the balcony of St Peter's Basilica:...
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Biography of Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost Prior to his election as Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops. Here is the biography of the 267th Bishop of Rome. The...
08.05.2025 20:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A message of encouragement from the Secretary General on the election of Pope Leo XIV The Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, the Rt Revd Anthony Poggo, has shared a message of encouragement on the election of Pope Leo XIV. The statement reads: With great joy,...
08.05.2025 20:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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WCC congratulates Pope Leo XIV The World Council of Churches (WCC) extended ecumenical greetings to Pope Leo XIV and an assurance of continuing engagement with the Roman Catholic Church in the era of its new...
08.05.2025 20:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bishop Anthony Ball commissioned as the director of the Anglican Centre in Rome in Eucharist service A Holy Eucharist service was held in Rome to mark the commissioning of the Rt Revd Anthony Ball as the director of the Anglican Centre in Rome. It was held...
08.05.2025 09:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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11,000 people take part in consultations for the next Archbishop of Canterbury More than 11,000 people have participated in the consultations for the next Archbishop of Canterbury – carried out online, by post and in person between February and March this year....
07.05.2025 12:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bishop voices ‘sadness’ at continuing eucharistic separation Week of Prayer for Christian Unity The fact that Anglicans and Catholics are not able to receive the Eucharist together yet is a matter of sadness,” the Bishop of Ossory...
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Anglican Communion starts ‘long process of resolution’ The Anglican Communion is moving “from a season of raw and antagonistic division to one of reckoning with what will likely be a long process of resolution”, the Inter-Anglican Standing...
03.01.2025 12:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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IASCUFO Communiqué: ‘Facing our theological differences more productively’ A meeting of the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO) gathered in Kuala Lumpur from 6-12 December. Hosted by the Right Revd Steven Abbarow and the Diocese...
18.12.2024 15:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Living Ecumenism: Communion in Mission | One Body The years following the closure of the Second Vatican Council in 1965 witnessed an explosion of bilateral ecumenical dialogues between various churches. Among these is the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission...
09.12.2024 12:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Annual Anglican-Catholic Informal Talks On 3 and 4 December 2024, representatives of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity and the steering committees of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC) and the International Anglican-Roman Catholic...
09.12.2024 11:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“Making room for each other”: IASCUFO paper explores Anglican Communion identity Renewing the Instruments of the Anglican Communion is the focus of a new paper called The Nairobi-Cairo Proposals released by the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO). Commissioned...
06.12.2024 09:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Final synod document is magisterial, pope says Doubling down on the centrality of synodality in the Catholic Church, Pope Francis said that it is now up to local churches to accept and implement proposals from the final...
26.11.2024 12:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Implementing Bluesky As the IARCCUM.org website has developed, I have been adding little features that enhance the resources and assist people in sharing the material with colleagues and friends. A few years...
18.11.2024 22:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue: Online resource centre for Anglican-Roman Catholic relations IARCCUM.org is the official website of the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission, a joint commission of the Anglican Communion and the Dicastery for Promoting Christia...

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18.11.2024 22:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Anglican Centre in Rome announces new Director The Board of Governors of the Anglican Centre in Rome has announced the appointment of a new Director. Bishop Anthony Ball will take over the leadership of the Centre when...
07.11.2024 18:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An opportunity to remember Christian unity’s connection to world peace Pope John Paul II once observed that ‘the modern ecumenical movement is the world’s most important peace movement’. Certainly, at the time of its origin at the end of the...
03.11.2024 12:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bishop of Chichester sees lessons for Church of England in Rome synod The Anglican Communion’s representative at the ongoing Synod on Synodality at the Vatican, the Bishop of Chichester, Dr Martin Warner, has urged the Church of England to learn from the...
17.10.2024 12:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ecumenical Prayer Vigil on the occasion of the Synod 2024 An Ecumenical Prayer Vigil took place on Friday, 11 October, in the Square of the Roman Protomartyrs at the Vatican, attended by Pope Francis and participants in the second session...
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The risk of listening and discerning Writing from Rome, where he is attending the Synod of the Roman Catholic Church, LWF Assistant General Secretary for Ecumenical Relations Dirk Lange, reflects on its far-reaching implications for the...
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