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meddelanden och aktstycken
»Your Committee believes that it will be best in the first
instance to refer to our relations with the Church of Sweden.
They rejoice to observe that the Resolutions of our previous
Conferences (Res. 14. of 1888 and Res. 39. of 1897) have been
followed by the official mission of the Rt. Rev. H. W. Tottie,
D D., Bishop of Kalmar, who is the bearer of a Latin letter
to our President from the Archbishop of Upsala, dated June
20, 1908, in which the following sentence occurs: »Laetamur
quod Vos, Episcopi Anglicani, jam pridem spectatis, ut
Eccle-siam vestram et nostram inter se societate quadam devinciatis.
Id quibus in rebus et quo modo fieri possit, deliberetis, velim,
cum Henry William Tottie, episcopo Calmariensi, collega meo
carissimo, qui, Vobis benigne permittentibus atque jussu Regis
nostri clementissimi, ad concilium quod mox habebitis, venturus
est,» which we may render: »We rejoice that your Anglican
Bishops have for some time had in view the binding together
of your Church and ours in some sort of alliance. I would ask
that you should deliberate as to the points and the method of
such an alliance with Henry William Tottie, Bishop of Kalmar,
my beloved colleague, who with your kind permission and under
the orders of our most gracious King, is about to come to the
Council which you are soon to hold.»
Your Committee have taken full advantage of the presence
of this honourable and learned envoy of the Swedish Church,
and desire to thank him for the courtesy, kindness, and patience
with which he has discharged his task towards themselves.
They would suggest that before the Conference dissolves he
should be invited to deliver this letter in person, and to receive
the answer which is contained in the Resolution they have
drafted.
The Bishop of Kalmar produced further evidence in support
of what may now, perhaps, be described as the received
opinion, that the actual succession of the Swedish Episcopate is
unbroken. It appears from documents, to which he has drawn
our attention, that importance was attached to the historic
Episcopate at different periods in the history of the Church
of Sweden.1 He has translated the various forms of consecra-
1 The Bishop of Kalmar refers to the kyrko-ordning of 1571, which
contains the ritual of the consecration of Bishops and of the Ordering
of Priests. On p. lxxxv of this book it is said, regarding the commission
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