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The Anglican Centre in Rome provides a permanent diplomatic presence in Rome for the Anglican Communion; it is the base for the Archbishop of Canterbury's Representative to the Holy See; it provides a ministry of prayer and hospitality; offers educational opportunities, courses and a library; it gives advice on pilgrimages and visits to Rome; and it contributes to conversations and builds friendship between Anglicans and Roman Catholics at every level, encouraging and resourcing working and growing together in unity and mission. It's latest newsletter is now available

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Almost a year on from the worst natural disaster in Haiti’s history, two Anglican/Episcopal fundraising initiatives demonstrate that the country has not been forgotten.

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Bishop Christopher Epting, Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations Program Officer for The Episcopal Church and Mary Reath, Governor of the Anglican Centre, will lead a guided exploration of Growing Together in Unity and Mission, the agreed statement of the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission.

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Presiding Bishop joins convocation delegates in Waterloo, Belgium

Sharing powerful accounts of their churches' histories, turning points and hopes for the future, Episcopalians from the Convocation of American Churches in Europe explored a new model for their annual convention this year and left feeling renewed, energized and inspired by one another's stories.

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A Parish Priest with wide experience of ministry in the armed forces, in education and in parish ministry has been appointed as the next Dean of Gibraltar. 57 year old Dr John Paddock is currently Vicar of St Georges, Tuffley with St Margaret’s, Whaddon in Gloucestershire (UK) and hopes to take up his new post in mid December.

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Assunto: Culto Comemorativo do 50º aniversário da Sagração do 1º Bispo da Igreja Lusitana - Comunhão Anglicana

A Igreja Lusitana está em FESTA.

Após a sua institucionalização em 1880, vai celebrar o 50º. Aniversário da Sagração do seu Primeiro Bispo, D. António Ferreira Fiandor, que teve lugar a 22 de Junho de 1958.

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Anglican leader Dr. Luís César Pereira to be honoured by civic and ecumenical officials

Aos Órgãos de Comunicação Social

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Bishop Pierre Whalon of the Convocation of American Churches in Europe hosted a January 20 discussion on France Culture radio about the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity and the plight of Iraqi Christians.

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By Bishop John Flack - Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome 2003 – 2008

In the summer of 2000 I had a telephone call from the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey. I was shelling peas at the time, so the call came as something of a shock. "Do you speak Italian?" he asked. "Well" I replied, "I can order a cappuchino in Pizza Express". "I’m sending you a cheque" he said "to go and get some Italian lessons". The line went dead and I was left standing puzzled in the kitchen of my house in the small medieval city of Ely, Cambridgeshire.

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Under gray skies and a cold rain, Pope Benedict XVI encouraged people to stand firm in their hope that God will hear their prayers for justice and peace.

Arriving to celebrate Mass Oct. 21 in Naples' historic Piazza del Plebiscito, Pope Benedict stopped to embrace Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury and other leaders of Christian churches.

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The former Archbishop of York, the Right Reverend & Right Honourable Lord Hope, has accepted an invitation to become an Honorary Assistant Bishop in the Diocese in Europe. He will join a number of other bishops who assist the Diocesan and his Suffragan in their pastoral care of more than 270 congregations scattered over 45 countries in and around Europe.

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I was deeply saddened to hear of the death of His Beatitude, Teoctist, Patriarch of Romania since 1986, the spiritual father of the Romanian Orthodox Church.

Throughout his long life he served the Orthodox Church and the people of Romania, witnessing to the deep-rooted Christian culture of the Romanian people.

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Anglicans from the Costa Blanca and Costa Azahar (from the South and North of Valencia) have been involved in an Act of Worship in five languages to mark the start of the America’s Cup yacht races from the Spanish city.

The service in Spanish, English, Italian, French and German also included music ‘a capella’ by the Valencian choir ‘Studium Vocale’ and included Bible readings from Job (‘from the heart of the tempest’), Philippians and the Gospel of John focusing on facing challenges in unity.

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20 November saw the beginning of the celebrations for the 40th anniversary of the Anglican Centre in Rome. Celebratory events include the re-launching of the library on 20 November following its recent expansion (1,000 new volumes added, taking the total to 14,000). The evening will also see the presentation of two new books on Anglicanism: 'Anglicans in Rome' by Fr Fred Bliss, former professor of ecumenism at the Angelicum University in Rome; and 'La riforma anglicana: storia ed evoluzione della Chiesa d'Inghilterra e della Comunione anglicana' by Gino Patriarchi (in Italian).

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The chairperson of the governors of the Anglican Centre in Rome, Bishop Stephen Platten, has invited the Roman Catholic Church to use its authority in a more collegial way, and to allow more freedom of expression in theological dialogue.

'Catholics says Anglicans do not have a clear enough structure on authority, and I agree that there are areas it ought to be better. But I also believe the Catholic Church should exercise its authority in a much more collegial way,' Platten, the Anglican bishop of Wakefield in England, told Ecumenical News International on October 21. "Many Anglicans would be pleased to have a central figure - just like the Pope -- in the church, but they want its role to be more collegial also.'

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On the 15th of October the St Vincent's Church of England congregation in the central region of the Algarve resumed its normal worshipping life in the Church of Nossa Senhora de Fatima, near Almancil. For the past 13 weeks this congregation was unable to worship in this Church which had been their regular place of worship for 16 years. The Roman Catholic hosts were under the impression that there had been a change of name of the congregation to 'All Saints Anglican Church' and that the oversight of Anglican work in the Algarve had switched from the Church of England to a bishop from Brazil.

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Dear Archbishop Janis Vanags

As Archdeacon of Germany and Northern Europe, within the Church of England's Diocese in Europe, I have just returned from the Deanery Synod of Nordic and Baltic Countries held this year in Oslo. The Synod is comprised of the Clergy Chapter and of elected Lay Representatives from our chaplaincies and congregations.

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Dear All,

It is odd to think that this is already the fifth anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center - odd that time has gone by so quickly, and odd that anniversaries in multiples of five seem more significant than others.

We all have memories of that day, what we were doing, where we were, just as older people remember where they were and what they were engaged in when they heard that President John F. Kennedy had been shot.

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I write to you out of concern at events surrounding a service for the Feast of St Mary Magdalene held at St Saviour's church in Riga on Saturday 22nd July.

As you will know, that day was the date originally intended for a Gay Pride march through the city. There were, therefore, members of the gay and lesbian community present at the service, along with a wide number of visitors, members of St Saviour's Council and ecumenical guests. The police had been informed that the service would be taking place. Moreover, violence that took place around St Saviour's last year on the day of the Gay Pride march would surely have also caused police vigilance this year.

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The College of Anglican Bishops in Continental Europe (COABICE) met in Oporto, Portugal, July 3-5, at the request of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, to discuss developing a covenant among the four Anglican jurisdictions in Europe -- the Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe, the Iglesia Espa?ola Reformada Episcopal, the Igreja Lusitana Catolica Apostolica Evangelica, and the Convocation of American Churches in Europe.

The bishops produced a draft document which will be circulated for comment among the authorities of the four jurisdictions, Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold, and Williams. The meeting was characterized by the bishops as very productive, in an atmosphere of prayer, openness, and warm congeniality.

They thanked Bishop Fernando da Luz Soares of the Igreja Lusitana Catolica Apostolica Evangelica for his welcome and the superb hospitality of his Church, and the Rev. Dr. Manuel Sumares, Priest-in-charge of St. James, Oporto, for his help as recording secretary.

The other bishops participating in the meeting were el Reverendissimo Carlos Lopez-Lozano of Iglesia Espa?ola Reformada Episcopal, Bishop Geoffrey Rowell of the Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe, and Bishop Pierre W. Whalon of the Convocation of American Churches in Europe -- one of the Episcopal Church's 11 not-domestic dioceses.

Article from: ENS