The Porvoo Communion is an agreement between 12 European Protestant churches establishing full communion. 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 state churches of the Nordic countries, and the Lutheran churches of the Baltic states. Later negotiations brought the Episcopal churches of the Iberian peninsula into the agreement. Full communion is a kind of relationship between two or more organizations of Christians. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Riverside storage buildings in Old Porvoo Porvoo (IPA: [ˈporÊ‹oː]), or BorgÃ¥ in Swedish, is a municipality of about 47,000 inhabitants, situated on the southern coast of Finland approximately 50 kilometres east of Helsinki. ... The term Anglican describes those people and churches following the religious traditions of the Church of England, especially following the Reformation. ... The British Isles consist of Great Britain, Ireland and a number of much smaller surrounding islands. ... The Lutheran movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity by the original definition. ... See also civil religion. ... The Nordic countries (Greenland not shown) The Nordic countries is a term used collectively for five countries in Northern Europe. ... Baltic states and the Baltic Sea The Baltic states or the Baltic countries is a term which nowadays refers to three countries in Northern Europe: Estonia Latvia Lithuania Prior to World War II, Finland was sometimes considered, particularly by the Soviet Union, a fourth Baltic state. ... The word episcopal is derived from the Greek επισκοπος epískopos, which literally means overseer; the word, however, is used in religious contexts to refer to a bishop. ... topographic map of the Iberian Peninsula The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe. ...

Signatories of the Porvoo Communion:

• The Church of England
• The Church of Ireland
• The Scottish Episcopal Church
• The Church in Wales
• The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
• The Church of Iceland
• The Church of Norway
• The Church of Sweden
• The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia
• The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lithuania
• The Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church of Portugal
• The Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church

Other churches involved in the negotiations: The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and acts as the mother and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion. ... The Church of Ireland is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion, operating seamlessly in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. ... The Scottish Episcopal Church (or Episcopal Church of Scotland) is a member of the Anglican Communion in Scotland, formed in the 17th century after the national church, the Church of Scotland, adopted presbyterian government and reformed theology. ... The Church in Wales is a member Church of the Anglican Communion. ... The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland is the Lutheran national church of Finland (The Finnish Orthodox Church is also recognized as a national church). ... The Church of Iceland is the state church in Iceland. ... Country church in Sogn, Norway The Church of Norway (Den norske kirke) also known as the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway is the state church of Norway, to which 86% of Norwegians belong. ... The Church of Sweden, or Svenska kyrkan, is the national church of Sweden. ... Some Roman Catholic priests and lays rejected a number of dogmas from Vatican I (1869–70) and the previous work of Anglican priests who passed through Lisbon in 1839 and 1868 led to the establishment of the Lusitanian Church in 1880 using a translation of the 1662 English Prayer Book. ...

• The Church of Denmark
• The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia

The Church of Denmark (Den Danske Folkekirke) is the largest Denmark. ...

External links

• Official website of the Porvoo Communion