ANGLICAN CENTRE LAUNCHES FIRST ONLINE STUDIES

 

The Anglican Centre in Rome is launching an innovative series of courses on ecumenism next month – its first ever series of online interactive sessions.

Although the Centre has reopened its doors after months of lockdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic, strict guidelines on social distancing and restrictions on travel mean that it is difficult at the moment to run conventional courses involving course tutors and students coming together in the Centre’s rooms within the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj.

Instead, the Centre’s Director, Archbishop Ian Ernest, has created three courses examining the work of the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC) and the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission (IARCCUM) which will be available via Zoom.

Course one, on the history and foundations of Arcic I and the beginnings of Arcic II and the Lambeth Conference of 1988, will be held on Monday 29 June – the feast of Sts Peter and Paul. Speakers will be the Old Testament scholar Dame Mary Tanner, who is also an expert on ARCIC, and Bishop Christopher Hill, who served as co-secretary of ARCIC from 1974-81.

Course two, on ARCIC II and III and the shifts in tensions and ecumenical mood, will be held on Monday 13 July with Professor Nicholas Sagovsky, former canon theologian of Westminster Abbey and Mgr Mark Langham, former official of the Pontifical Council for the Promoting of Christian unity.

The final and third course on Monday 27 July will focus on the establishment of IARCCUM,  will be given by Archbishop Donald Bolen, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Regina, Canada, and another former co-secretary of ARCIC, as well as of IARCCUM and Bishop David Hamid, suffragan bishop in Europe and co-chair of IARCCUM.

All the courses will be held at 3pm, Rome time, and will last two hours, with those attending encouraged to participate. Attendance is free, but a donation to the Anglican Centre would be welcome.  Please click here if you'd like to donate.

To register, please indicate which seminar you'd like to attend and contact [email protected]