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Resolution 47 - Relations with Other Churches - Reciprocal Acts of

Resolution 47

Relations with Other Churches - Reciprocal Acts of

Intercommunion The Conference recommends that, where there is agreement between an Anglican Church and some other Church or Churches to seek unity in a way which includes agreement on apostolic faith and order, and where that agreement to seek unity has found expression, whether in a covenant to unite or in some other appropriate form, a Church of the Anglican Communion should be free to allow reciprocal acts of intercommunion under the general direction of the bishop; each province concerned to determine when the negotiations for union in which it is engaged have reached the stage which allows this intercommunion.

Voting: For 341; Against 87.

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