The Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America will join with their Canadian
counterparts – the Anglican Church in Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada – to
celebrate 10 years of the full communion relationship internationally Sunday.
Called to Common Mission, for full communion between the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America, and the similar Canadian document, The Waterloo Declaration, between the Anglican
Church of Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, both took effect in 2001.
Participating in Sunday’s celebration will be the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop
and Primate of the Episcopal Church; Bishop Mark Hanson, Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America; the Most Rev. Fred Hiltz, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada; and Bishop Susan
Johnson, National Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada.
The event will feature simultaneous celebrations at 3 p.m. at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Fort Erie,
Ontario and Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Buffalo, NY.
Johnson will preside at St. Paul’s Anglican and Jefferts Schori will preach. Hanson will preside and
Hiltz will preach at Holy Trinity Lutheran.
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