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Porvoo in Ireland – a personal view

During my fourth year at the Faculty of Theology in Iceland, I acted as a steward at a few international conferences. The one I enjoyed serving at the most, was the Porvoo conference in Skálholt, a place where one of the three bishops in Iceland is situated. That is when I learned that as an ordained servant in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland, I already qualified to serve in the Anglican churches of Britain and Ireland. As I had lived for some time in London years earlier, I instantly thought that would be a brilliant idea sometime in the future. The biggest difficulty would be to get ordained in Iceland as there were/are not many positions, and many candidates for each one of them.


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Porvoo in Ireland – a personal view