Porvoo Communion
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The Porvoo Communion is the community formed through an agreement between twelve European churches which consider themselves as maintaining the Catholic and Apostolic Faith while being Protestant with regard to the Roman Catholic Church. The agreement, entitled, The Porvoo Common Statement, establishes full communion between and among the churches. The agreement was negotiated in 1994 in the town of Porvoo (Borgå) in Finland. The churches involved are the Anglican churches of the British Isles, the Lutheran national churches of the Nordic countries, and the Lutheran churches of the Baltic countries. Later negotiations brought the Episcopal (Anglican Communion) churches of the Iberian peninsula into the agreement.
Signatories of the Porvoo Communion:
- The Church of England
- The Church of Ireland
- The Scottish Episcopal Church
- The Church in Wales
- The National Church of Iceland (Lutheran Evangelical Church of Iceland)
- The Church of Norway
- The Church of Sweden (formerly a state-church)
- The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
- The Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church
- The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lithuania
- The Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church of Portugal
- The Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church
Other churches involved as observers:
