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Porvoo Communion
Communion of European Anglican and Lutheran churches
TypeCommunion
ClassificationProtestant
OrientationAnglican
Lutheran
RegionEurope
Origin1992
Members45,000,000
Official websitehttps://porvoocommunion.org/

The Porvoo Communion is a communion of 15 predominantly northern European Anglican and Evangelical Lutheran churches, with some church bodies in the Iberian Peninsula of the same denomination. It was established in 1992 by a theological agreement entitled the which establishes between and among these churches. The agreement was negotiated in the town of in , but the communion's name comes from the nearby city of , where a joint (or ) was celebrated in after the formal signing in Järvenpää. The Porvoo Communion claims to represent 45 million members among the member churches, approximately 50% of Europe's Protestants.

Porvoo Common Statement
full communion
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Järvenpää
Finland
Porvoo
Eucharist
Holy Communion
Porvoo Cathedral
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Countries with churches of the Porvoo Communion. The names of churches in the Anglican Communion are magenta coloured (or pink color), those established after the First Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church in 1868–1870 are in blue (or violet); the names of Nordic Lutheran churches (Scandinavia and Baltic area) are red.

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Contents8 sections
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  • Overview
  • Participants
  • See also
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Categories:
  • Protestant ecumenism
  • Porvoo
  • History of Lutheranism
  • Anglican ecumenism
  • Church of England
  • Church of Ireland
  • Church in Wales
  • Scottish Episcopal Church
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
  • Church of Norway
  • Church of Sweden
  • Protestantism in Europe
  • Christian ecumenical organizations
  • 1992 establishments in Europe
  • Christian organizations established in 1992
  • 1992 in Christianity
  • 1992 in Finland

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  • First Vatican Council1
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  • Scandinavia1
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Overview

The first seeds to the broader communion formed in 1992 were planted in 1922 when the Anglican Church and the Church of Sweden agreed to enter communion with each other. In 1938, the Archbishop of Canterbury, symbolic head of the Anglican Communion, invited the representatives of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church and Latvian Lutheran Church to Lambeth Palace in London in order to reach "altar and pulpit fellowship" between the Anglican and Baltic Lutheran churches. This process came to a formal conclusion with the establishment of the much wider Porvoo Communion in 1992. The churches involved are the several Anglican churches of the British Isles (headed by the founding Church of England) and the other Evangelical Lutheran churches of the Northern European countries. Later negotiations brought the small Anglican churches of Spain and Portugal into the agreement. These churches all share episcopal polity of church organization with the three-fold ministry of bishops, priests (or pastors) and deacons within the historical episcopate with apostolic succession (only bishops ordaining clergy or other bishops, priests and deacons). This is based on the threefold office of the early church.

The Porvoo Communion has no central office or overseer. Each member church has a contact person and these form a contact group which meets each year. Two bishops, one Lutheran and the other Anglican, are co-moderators of the contact group, and there are two co-secretaries also drawn from each tradition. Both are members of the Lutheran World Federation and the Anglican Communion.3 There are also various conferences and meetings organized to discuss issues of concern to the entire Communion.4

Participants

Signatories of the Porvoo Communion:56

1994

  • Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lithuania
  • Church of Norway
  • Scottish Episcopal Church
  • Church of Sweden

1995

  • Church of England
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
  • Church of Ireland
  • Church of Iceland
  • Church in Wales

2001

  • Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church
  • Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church

2010

  • Church of Denmark

See also

  • Bonn Agreement (Christianity)
  • Churches Beyond Borders
    • Called to Common Mission
    • Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe
    • Waterloo Declaration
  • Communion of Protestant Churches in Europe
  • Ecumenical Movement
  • List of the largest Protestant denominations
  • Other Nordic Lutheran churches
    • Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria
    • Communion of Nordic Lutheran Dioceses

References

  1. 1"The Porvoo Common Statement". porvoocommunion.org.
  2. 2Tudorie, Ionuț-Alexandru. ""The Porvoo Common Statement from an Orthodox Perspective", in: B. Fagerli, L. Nathaniel, T. Karttunen (eds.), Towards Closer Unity: Communion of the Porvoo Churches 20 Years, s.l.: Porvoo Communion of Churches, 2016, pp. 282-299". by Ionuț-Alexandru Tudorie.
  3. 3"Porvoo communion contacts". porvoocommunion.org. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  4. 4"Interchange". porvoocommunion.org. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  5. 5"Anglican Churches". porvoocommunion.org. The Porvoo Communion. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  6. 6"Lutheran Churches". porvoocommunion.org. The Porvoo Communion. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  7. 7"Søndagens gudstjeneste i Københavns Domkirke dannede rammen om den historiske underskrivning af Porvoo-deklarationen" (Press release). Official press release. Archived from on 12 October 2010. Retrieved 3 October 2010.

Further reading

  • Tjørhom, Ola, ed. (2002). Apostolicity and Unity: Essays on the Porvoo Common Statement. Geneva, CH: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN 978-2-8254-1375-3.

External links

  • Official website
  • "Anglican-Lutheran Society".
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2014

  • Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church Worldwide
  • Lutheran Church in Great Britain

2025

  • Church of the Faroe Islands8

Observers:

  • Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia, since 19949
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  • 8"Welsh church hosts service welcoming newest member of Porvoo Communion". episcopalnewsservice.org. Episcopal News Service. 8 October 2025. Retrieved 9 October 2025.
  • 9"Observer Churches". porvoocommunion.org. The Porvoo Communion. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
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