The Anglican Communion is engaged at a global level to promote the unity of Christians and their churches.
The Unity, Faith and Order department at the Anglican Communion Office supports meetings and conversations between different churches, church leaders and Christian church organisations. It also creates theological resources to support these talks.
One aspect of the team’s work is organising and supporting eight Ecumenical Dialogues with other Churches. These consultations, which take place around the world every year, aim to identify and examine differences and then explore ways of drawing closer together and healing divisions.
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‘The work of ecumenism today is more like the work of a climatologist as compared to say a meteorologist. Revd Canon Dr John Gibaut, |
Archbishop Justin Welby and Cardinal Vincent Nichols
The Revd Dr Will Adam oversees the Anglican Communion’s ecumenical relations and is based at Anglican Communion office in London.
The vision of the Unity, Faith and Order department flows from the aims the ecumenical movement which has its origins in the Edinburgh Missionary Conference in 1910. The Anglican Communion committed itself to this movement towards Christian unity at the Lambeth Conference of 1920. Resolution 9 called for all Christian people to put aside divisions and be inspired by “the vision and hope of a visible unity of the whole Church”.
Will co-ordinates dialogue meetings of the various world churches in both an ambassadorial and an advisory capacity. His role includes:
The Revd Neil Vigers helps facilitate global ecumenical dialogues through administration and the creation of published resources to support theologians.
He also supports the work of the Anglican Consultative Council in its role in ecumenical dialogue.
| William Adam | Phone: +44 (0)20 7313 3930 Email: william.adam@aco.org |
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| Neil Vigers |
Phone: +44 (0)20 7313 3929 |
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