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Church, as well as that on suitable occasions permission should be
given to Anglican ecclesiastics to give addresses in our churches
and there to perform religious functions.

To this general answer we ought to add a few words about
some special questions, mentioned in the resolutions of the Lambeth
Conference and in the report of a special Committee, by which the
resolutions were prepared:

1. With regard to Resolution 2 5 of the Conference, where
it is recommended that in the event of an invitation being extended
to an Anglican Bishop or Bishops to take part in the consecration
of a Swedish Bishop, the invitation should, if possible, be accepted,
subject to approval of the Metropolitan, we express our satisfaction
that a wish, expressed by the Archbishop of Canterbury in a letter
of August 11, 1920, to the Archbishop of Upsala, when
communicating to him the Lambeth resolutions ■— viz. that for the future a
reciprocal assistance of Bishops from one of the Churches at the
consecration of Bishops in the other might be practiced, when a
suitable occasion presents itself — has now already begun to be put
into practice by the assistance of two Anglican Bishops at the
consecration of two Swedish Bishops in Upsala on September 19,
1920. We recommend, further, that in case such an invitation to
take part in the consecration of an Anglican Bishop should be
extended to a Swedish Bishop, it should, if possible, be accepted,
subject to the approval of the Archbishop.

2. The Committee appointed by the Lambeth Conference to
report on these questions, gives expression in its report to two
desiderata which were discussed already in the preliminary
negotiations in Upsala, in September 1909. They concern, firstly, the
establishment in the Church of Sweden of a Diaconate of the same
kind as that existing in the Anglican Communion, and, secondly,
the introduction, likewise in accordance with the Anglican practice,
of the laying-on of hands as an outward sign of grace given in
Confirmation.

With regard to these two desiderata, which, as we notice, have
neither now nor formerly been made in any way conditional for
intercommunion, we wish to make the following brief statements:

a. In our Church we do not now possess any order exactly
corresponding to the Anglican Diaconate. For a number of years,
howewer, we have had among us a male Diaconate for the service
of charity among the sick, the infirm, the poor, the lost, thus of
the same character as the Diaconate of women, which is older and
more amply developed among us. In Resolution 49 of the Lambeth
Conference, this Diaconate is said to be the primitive one in the
Christian Church, a statement which is undoubtedly true according

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