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ACNS 4073     |     ACO     |	  15 NOVEMBER 2005

Communiqué from The Anglican Old Catholic International Co-ordinating Council

The new Anglican Old Catholic International Co-ordinating Council
(AOCICC) met between 7th - 10th November, 2005, at Haus Bruchmatt,
Lucerne, Switzerland under the co-chairmanship of the Right Revd
Jonathan Gledhill, Bishop of Lichfield, and the Right Revd Fritz-René
Müller, Bishop of Switzerland. The Council is grateful for the warmth of
hospitality offered by the sisters at Haus Bruchmatt.

The new Council has come into being following a new mandate from the
Archbishops of Canterbury and Utrecht, which builds on the work of the
first Anglican Old Catholic International Co-ordinating Council, which
completed its five year mandate last year.

The Council received reports on recent developments from the various Old
Catholic churches, and these were complemented by reports on
developments in the life of the Anglican Communion following the
publication of the Windsor Report, on the life of the Anglican Diocese
in Europe, and recent developments in the life of the Church of England.

The Council gives thanks to God for seventy-five years of shared life
between Anglicans and Old Catholics through the Bonn Agreement of 1931,
and gave consideration to the plans for the celebration of that
anniversary. It went on to discuss the shape of future relations between
the two church families.

The Council believes that the time is right to move towards a new level
of common life and witness including deeper consideration of full
visible unity. This common life and witness must be founded on the local
life of our congregations, and so the Council wishes to give especial
attention in its future work to developing ways in which Anglican and
Old Catholic congregations may work more closely.

The Council therefore plans to look at the specific items of its mandate
in this light at its future meetings.

9th November 2005

For further information, please contact the Revd Dr Angela Berlis (tel
+31 (0)23 532 6878 , email aocicc@alt-katholisch.de), or the Revd Canon
Gregory K Cameron (tel +44 (0)20 7313 3900, email
gregory.cameron@anglicancommunion.org.)

The members of the Anglican Old Catholic International Co-ordination
Council are:

Anglicans

The Rt Revd Jonathan Gledhill - Co-Chair
The Revd Canon Gregory K Cameron - Co-Secretary
The Rt Revd David Hamid, Suffragan Bishop of the Diocese in Europe
Mrs Maryon Jägers
The Revd Dr Jeremy Morris
Administrative Support: The Revd Terrie Robinson

Old Catholic

The Rt Revd Fritz-René Müller - Co-Chair
The Revd Dr Angela Berlis - Co-Secretary
The Revd Professor David R Holeton
The Revd Dr Harald Rein
The Revd Dr Dick Schoon
Administrative Support: The Revd Lars Simpson

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