OTHER EUROPEAN LINKS

The Porvoo Agreement

The Vicar of St Anne’s is the St Albans Diocese’s “desk” for matters to do with the Porvoo Agreement. The Porvoo Communion commits the churches which have signed the Porvoo Declaration to ‘share a common life’ and ‘to pray for one another’.
The following Churches are in full communion with each other:-
the Church of England,
the Church of Ireland,
the Scottish Episcopal Church,
the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland,
the Church of Sweden,
the Church of Norway,
the Church in Wales,
the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland,
the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church,
the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church,
the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lithuania.

The following Churches, at present, are Observers
the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark
the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia Each Sunday at St Anne’s, we pray for two or three dioceses from the above churches in our services.
Links to the various member Churches are given below and the Porvoo Communion web site can reached by clicking on their logo.

The Diocese of Europe (Church of England)

Most people forget that there are Church of England churches in most of the big cities in Europe and some of these maintain chaplaincies in holiday areas as well. This gives opportunity for English-speaking people who work abroad or who are on holiday to worship in a familiar way, and also to receive pastoral care. There are occasions when something happens when you are abroad where you need the care and support of clergy or a local Christian community.

The Vicar of St Anne’s has the full directory of where all these churches are, who the ministers are and how to contact them. So if you are going on holiday in Europe and want have these details before you go, give him a ring.