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USA Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold welcomed as new Anglican Co-Chairman at Canada Meeting

USA Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold welcomed as new Anglican Co-Chairman at Canada Meeting

The following communique was issued at the recent ARCIC meeting in Canada

13 September 1999

ARCIC Communiqué

ARCIC Communiqué

The Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC) met from 26 August to 2 September at the Queen of Apostles Renewal Centre, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

02 September 1999

Message of the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion on the death of His Holiness Karekin I

Message of the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion on the death of His Holiness Karekin I

It is with profound sorrow that I have learnt of the death of His Holiness Karekin 1, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians of the Holy See of Etchmiadzin. On behalf of the Churches of the Anglican Communion I offer condolences to the faithful of the Churches of Etchmiadzin and Cilicia and to Armenian Christians everywhere.

30 June 1999

His Holiness Karekin I (1932-1999)

His Holiness Karekin I (1932-1999)

It is with regret and a deep sense of loss that the World Council of Churches (WCC) shares the news that His Holiness Karekin I, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians of the Holy See of Etchmiadzin, Armenia, died yesterday at the age of 66.

30 June 1999

Anglican/Roman Catholic International Commission Issues Statement on Authority

Anglican/Roman Catholic International Commission Issues Statement on Authority

At a press briefing in Westminster Abbey, London, today, the co-chairmen of the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC), the Rt Revd Mark Santer (Anglican) and the Rt Revd Cormac Murphy-O'Connor (Roman Catholic), launched the document "The Gift of Authority", the latest in study documents issued by 18 members of the Commission.

12 May 1999

Homily at Lambeth Ecumenical Vespers Service-July 20, 1998

Homily at Lambeth Ecumenical Vespers Service-July 20, 1998

I am most grateful to the Archbishop of Canterbury for graciously inviting me to preach at this Ecumenical Vespers service as the Lambeth Conference gets under way

22 July 1998

Lambeth consultants consider Roman Catholic official's comments on unity

Lambeth consultants consider Roman Catholic official's comments on unity

A top official of the Roman Catholic church has offered a positive but cautionary assessment of the relationship between the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches, according to ecumenical consultants assisting at the Lambeth Conference.

21 July 1998

Vespers service introduces ecumenical guests to Lambeth

Vespers service introduces ecumenical guests to Lambeth

Fire from a paschal candle lit one small taper, and the light spread from that to another, and yet another, until the gloom in the darkened hall was brightened by their glow

21 July 1998

Ecumenical: More Than 330 Churches to go to the Harare Assembly

Ecumenical: More Than 330 Churches to go to the Harare Assembly

(ENI) The heads of more than 330 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox churches which are members of the World Council of Churches are to be invited to the Zimbabwean capital of Harare in December for a service of recommitment to mark the 50th anniversary of the foundation in 1948 of the WCC.

11 May 1998

Ecumenical: Archbishop of Canterbury Appeal on the Eucharist

Ecumenical: Archbishop of Canterbury Appeal on the Eucharist

(ENI & CT) The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd George Carey, has issued a highly personal plea for the lift of the Roman Catholic ban on intercommunion.

11 May 1998