The possibility of joint parishes shared by the Anglican and Old Catholic Churches in mainland Europe, was held out by the Bishop in Europe, the Rt Revd John Hind, when members of the two communions met in Oporto, Portugal in June.
The German Old Catholic Church, which is in Communion with the Anglican Communion, and whose orders are recognised by the Roman Catholic Church, ordained its first two women priests at Pentecost. Angela Berlis, a chaplain at Bonn University, and Regina Pickel-Bossau, a teacher, were ordained in Konstanz by Bishop Joachim Vobbe, assisted by Bishop Emeritus Sigisbert Kraft.
Latvian Lutherans have postponed signing the Porvoo Declaration because of unhappiness with the Thirty-Nine Articles. They voted to put off a decision on signing the Porvoo declarations, an intercommunion agreement between the Anglican Churches in the British Isles and Baltic and Nordic Lutheran Churches.
The Revd Canon John L. Peterson, Secretary General of Anglican Communion, today welcomed His All-Holiness Bartholomaios I, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome, and Ecumenical Patriarch, to the Anglican Communion offices in London.
