The Porvoo Communion is the community formed through an agreement between twelve European churches which consider themselves as mantaining the Catholic and Apostolic Faith while being Protestant of Rome. The agreement, entitled, The Porvoo Common Statement, establishes full communion between and among the churches. The agreement was negotiated in 1994 in the town of Porvoo (Borgå) in Finland. The churches involved are the Anglican churches of the British Isles, the Lutheran state churches of the Nordic countries, and the Lutheran churches of the Baltic countries. Later negotiations brought the Episcopal churches of

Signatories of the Porvoo Communion:

• The Church of England
• The Church of Ireland
• The Scottish Episcopal Church
• The Church in Wales
• The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
• The Church of Iceland
• The Church of Norway
• The Church of Sweden
• The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia
• The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lithuania
• The Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church of Portugal
• The Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church

Other churches involved in the negotiations:

• The Church of Denmark
• The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia

External links

• Porvoo-fellesskapet

Comunhão de Porvoo Bisericile Porvoo