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nattvardsgemenskap med englands kyrka
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ference the adoption of the definite recommendations cited above.
We also hold that the time has come when, in the event of an
invitation to an Anglican bishop or bishops to take part in the
consecration of a Swedish bishop, it might properly be accepted.
Such an invitation was, we understand, actually made in the
year 1914, but it was then thought that the time had not come
for such action, as the Report of the Commission had not been
then before the Lambeth Conference. This reason no longer
exists, and in the event of our resolutions based on this
Report being approved, we believe that there need be hesitation
no longer. Only we would add the recommendation that the
acceptance of any such invitation should be subject to the
approval of the Metropolitan of the Province, so that the
invitation might be considered as one made from Church to Church,
and not simply as a personal matter. We think also that in
the first instance, as an evident token of the restoration of close
relations between the two Churches, it is desirable that more
than one of our bishops should take part in the action.
We ought not to conclude this section of our Report
without stating that we are fully aware that in regard to the
Dia-conate and the administration of Confirmation the Swedish
Church does not conform to the practice required within the
Anglican Communion. But we have come to the conclusion
that this fact ought not to be allowed to be a bar to such
more intimate relations as we recommend. We express a hope,
however, that as a result of the closer intimacy which we
desire to be established, an intimacy which is happily encouraged
and fostered by the presence of many Swedish students in this
country, the Swedish Church may be led to consider the
restoration of the Diaconate, and also of the laying-on of hands as
an outward sign of grace given in Confirmation.1
We have said nothing in this Report of the other
Scandinavian Churches, viz. those of Denmark, Norway and Finland;
not from any lack of sympathy or of desire for closer relations
with them, but because the problem in their case is different
1 The subjects of the diaconate and Confirmation were considered at
the Conference at Upsala in 1909. See the Report of commission, pp. 10,
ii. Reference may also be made to Bishop Wordsworth’s Håle lectures,
p. p. 354—55 and 417—18, and Bishop Mott Williams’ The Church o/Swedeti
and the Anglican Communion pp. 66—81.
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