Webinar: “Visible Unity in a Changing North: Ecclesiology, Leadership, and the Future of the Churches”

Webinar: “Visible Unity in a Changing North: Ecclesiology, Leadership, and the Future of the Churches”

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Mon, 10/26/2026 - 19:12

A webinar on 30 October at 16:00 Sweden time will offer a glimpse into the World Council of Churches Commission on Faith and Order meeting, to occur from 26–31 October.

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Participants pictured at the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission on Faith and Order meeting taking place 25-31 October 2026.

Photo: Albin Hillert/WCC

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What kind of visible unity are the Nordic churches called to pursue in the coming decades? The webinar—in the form of a live-streamed plenary session from the Faith and Order meeting in Höör, Sweden—will move from diagnosis to vision and ecclesiological discernment. It will ask which forms of visible unity are most needed, how baptism shapes ecclesial belonging, and what it means to belong both to a Nordic church and to the global Christian fellowship.

Participants will include:

Rev. Prof. Dr Stephanie Dietrich, Church of Norway, moderator of the WCC Faith and Order Commission H.E. Archbishop Elia, Orthodox Church of Finland Rev.…