In addition to the approximately 670 bishops and dozens of other Anglican hangers-on (such as myself) attending the Lambeth Conference, there are more than 70 ecumenical participants, as well as representatives from churches with which some provinces of the Anglican Communion are in full communion. They were all officially welcomed to the conference today within the context of an ecumenical service of evening prayer. The archbishop of Canterbury preached a fine homily, focussing on the very ecumenical notion that in drawing closer to one another we draw closer to God, and vice-versa. And so in that same vein, here are some photos of Anglicans and Christians from other traditions drawing closer to one another today at the Lambeth Conference.
Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, and Bishop Susan Johnson, national bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
Dr. Sam Kobia, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches
A bishop of the Mar Thoma Church of India chatting with Archbishop and Mrs. Williams
Monsignor Don Bolen, a native of Saskatchewan, who’s on the staff of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
Two of the most ecumenical Canadian Anglicans around: Canon John Gibaut, a priest of the Diocese of Ottawa who’s currently the director of the World Council of Churches’ Commission on Faith and Order, and Canon Alyson Barnett-Cowan, director of the Anglican Church of Canada’s Department of Faith, Worship and Ministry
In addition to the approximately 670 bishops and dozens of other Anglican hangers-on (such as myself) attending the Lambeth Conference, there are more than 70 ecumenical participants, as well as representatives from churches with which some provinces of the Anglican Communion are in full communion. They were all officially welcomed to the conference today within the context of an ecumenical service of evening prayer. The archbishop of Canterbury preached a fine homily, focussing on the very ecumenical notion that in drawing closer to one another we draw closer to God, and vice-versa. And so in that same vein, here are some photos of Anglicans and Christians from other traditions drawing closer to one another today at the Lambeth Conference.
Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, and Bishop Susan Johnson, national bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
Dr. Sam Kobia, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches
A bishop of the Mar Thoma Church of India chatting with Archbishop and Mrs. Williams
Monsignor Don Bolen, a native of Saskatchewan, who’s on the staff of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
Two of the most ecumenical Canadian Anglicans around: Canon John Gibaut, a priest of the Diocese of Ottawa who’s currently the director of the World Council of Churches’ Commission on Faith and Order, and Canon Alyson Barnett-Cowan, director of the Anglican Church of Canada’s Department of Faith, Worship and Ministry
1 comment:
Bruce, your blog is one of the best visual things out of Lambeth. Thank you.
Sam Carriere
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