Bonn Agreement
In 1931 the Anglican Communion and the Old Catholics of the Union of Utrecht enter into full communion in the Bonn Agreement. Both the Old Catholics and the Anglicans agree on several key points:
- Each communion recognises the catholicity and independence of the other and maintains its own.
- Each communion agrees to permit members of the other communion to participate in the sacraments.
- Inter-communion does not require from either communion the acceptance of all doctrinal opinion, sacramental devotion or liturgical practice characteristic of the other, but implies that each believes the other to hold all the essentials of the Christian faith.
With this new inter-communion cross-episcopal ordinations began, further endorsing the apostolic succession within Anglicanism.
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