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Porvoo Communion

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 @ 00:53

AMONG the ecumenical guests welcomed at the General Synod last Friday was the Archbishop of Turku & Finland, the Rt Revd Kari Mäkinen, who was invited to address the Synod from the platform.

The Archbishop described some of the "common questions", arising from "great social and cultural change", faced by Churches in the Porvoo Communion. Recognition of this commonality could lead to "deeper unity", even if Churches reached different conclusions.

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