Bishop of Edinburgh is one of 20 people at international Anglican-Lutheran summit
[Diocese of Edinburgh] The Rt. Rev. John Armes, bishop of the Diocese of Edinburgh in the Scottish Episcopal Church, is in Amman, Jordan, for the Summit of the Anglican-Lutheran International Commission on Unity and Mission. That event is taking place March 28 to April 3.
The summit will bring together ten pairs of senior church leaders from the Anglican Communion and the Lutheran World Federation whose jurisdictions are twinned with another in their respective partner’s province. Armes will focus on the Diocese of Edinburgh’s links with the Diocese of Espoo in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. Bishop Kaisamari Hintikka of Espoo and Armes will report on the link between the two dioceses and their hopes for the future.
Many national churches in the Anglican Communion and the Lutheran World Federation are in full communion with each other. The summit will explore the agreements that support this, and the implications for global communion and the path to Christian unity.
Through the Porvoo Communion, the Scottish Episcopal Church has been in full communion with the Lutheran churches of Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Estonia and Lithuania since 1994.
The summit will also explore the theme of baptism, and members will visit Al-Maghtas, or Bethany Beyond the Jordan, which is one of two sites traditionally associated with the baptism of Jesus Christ in the Jordan River and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
