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Your Graces, Mr Dean, My Lord and Lady Bishops, Mr and Madam Archdeacons, respected clergy and laity.
It is a great honour and pleasure to stand before you to greet you all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. I cannot help mentioning that this is not the first time I have addressed a synod on British soil. Almost exactly 30 years ago, in May 1994, as a young Lutheran priest and doctoral student preparing my dissertation in Britain, I stood in Saint Mary’s Cathedral in Edinburgh to participate in the General Synod of the Scottish Ep...
Address to the Synod of the Church of England 5.7.2024
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