Porvoo Communion

The Porvoo Communion is a communion of 15 predominantly northern European Anglican and Evangelical Lutheran churches, with a couple of far-southwestern European (in the Iberian Peninsula) church bodies of the same denomination.

[1] The agreement was negotiated in the town of Järvenpää in Finland, but the communion's name comes from the nearby city of Porvoo, where a joint Eucharist (or Holy Communion) was celebrated in Porvoo Cathedral after the formal signing in Järvenpää.

Later negotiations brought the small Anglican churches of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) into the agreement.

Two bishops, one Lutheran and the other Anglican, are co-moderators of the contact group, and there are two co-secretaries also drawn from each tradition.

[2] There are also various conferences and meetings organized to discuss issues of concern to the entire Communion.

Countries with churches of the Porvoo Communion. The names of churches in the Anglican Communion are magenta coloured (or pink color), those established after the First Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church in 1868–1870 are in blue (or violet ); the names of Nordic Lutheran churches ( Scandinavia and Baltic area ) are red.