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September 26, 1997

Lutherans Approve Full Communion with Reformed but Not with Episcopal Church -- Yet

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Episcopal News Service

[Episcopalians Respond to...]
Episcopalians Respond to Failure of Concordat. The Rev. Dan Matenson, ecumenical officer for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), joins episcopal Bishop Edward Jones of Indianapolis, center, and the Rev. David Perry, ecumenical officer for the Episcopal Church in Philadelphia at a press conference following the ELCA's narrow defeat of the full communion agreement in August. (Episcopal News Service photo)