The Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe
Emmanuel Church is under the jurisdiction of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe,
which forms part of Province II of the Episcopal Church
USA.
The Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe
is established by the Constitution
and Canons of the Episcopal Church. These congregations have been ministering
to the English-speaking people in Europe for more than a century.
The Convocation is organized much like a Diocese in the Episcopal Church.
The Bishop in charge is. Right Rev. Pierre Whalon, is
Suffragan to the Presiding Bishop and Primate, The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, and resides in Paris. The Convocation meets annually in Convention
with the clergy and two lay delegates (and two alternates) from each individual
congregation in order to adopt its own budget and to take other steps as
needed to support and extend the mission of the Convocation.
In April 1999, a Consultation on Mission 2000 was held in Nice to reflect
on and plan the Convocation’s mission strategy for the first years
of the new millennium. The Consultation proposed six specific mission priorities
for consideration, funding and development: a) become a diocese, b) establish
a training center/program for lay and ordained ministers, c) develop youth
mission, d) share in the formation of an Anglican Province of Europe, e)
plant new mission churches, f) create multicultural European forms of Anglicanism.
Other
Episcopal Churches in the Convocation
The other Episcopal Churches in the Convocation include All Saints’ Church (Waterloo),
St. James (Florence), St. Paul’s Within-the-Walls (Rome), Christ the
King (Frankfurt), Church of the Ascension (Munich), St. Augustine of Canterbury
(Wiesbaden), and the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity (Paris). Two of these
churches have recently appointed new rectors. In the past decade six missions
have also been established along with French-speaking and Chinese-speaking
ministries at the Cathedral, a Latin-American ministry in Rome and an Italian ministry in Florence.
The Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe
The Right Reverend Pierre Whalon, Bishop-in-Charge
The Episcopal Cathedral of the Holy Trinity
23, avenue George V
75008 Paris, France
Tel: + 33 1 53 23 84 04
Fax: + 33 1 47 20 02 23
http://www.tec-europe.org
E-mail:
ecusa.eu@american-cath.assoc.fr
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