ELCA Presiding Bishop, Delegation Meet Archbishop of Canterbury

ELCA NEWS SERVICE
February 4, 2010

LONDON (ELCA) -- The Rev. Mark S. Hanson met with Dr. Rowan D. Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, in a private hour-long meeting Feb. 4 at Lambeth Palace here. After the meeting Hanson said the two discussed strengthening Anglican-Lutheran relationships, challenges each leader faces within his own communions, the proposed "Anglican Covenant" to deepen internal church relationships, global environmental issues, Christian-Muslim relationships, and mutual concern for conflicts in places such as Sudan and the Middle East.

Hanson, ELCA presiding bishop and president of the Lutheran World Federation, is leading an official delegation of 12 ELCA leaders on a two-week ecumenical journey to visit world church leaders. The LWF is a global communion of Christian churches in the Lutheran tradition.

The meeting with Williams, leader of the world Anglican Communion, was the first major meeting for the ELCA delegation. the rest