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The Centro Pro Unione |
invites you to the |
Sixth annual conference in honor of |
Father Paul Wattson and Mother Lurana White |
founders of the Society of the Atonement |
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ANGLICAN-ROMAN
CATHOLIC RELATIONS
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A New Step to be Taken A New Stage to be Reached? |
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Mary Tanner |
Member of the International Anglican-Roman |
Catholic Commission on Unity and Mission |
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Thursday, 11 December 2003 - 18.00 |
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Centro
Pro Unione Via Santa Maria dell'Anima 30, 1st floor |
Mary Tanner served on the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches from 1975, becoming a Vice Moderator in 1986 and Moderator of the Commission in 1991, chairing the Fifth World Conference on Faith and Order in Santiago de Compostela in 1993. From 1982-1991 she was a member of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission and is currently on the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission on Unity and Mission, as well as a member of the Special Commission on Orthodox Participation in the World Council of Churches. She served as Co-secretary of the Meissen Conversations with the Evangelical Church in Germany, the Porvoo Conversations with the Nordic and Baltic Lutheran churches and the Reuilly Conversations with the French Lutheran and Reformed churches.
In 1987 the Archbishop of Canterbury awarded her the Lambeth DD. She also has honorary doctorates from Birmingham University, the General Seminary, New York, and Virginia Seminary. Among other awards she holds the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Order of the British Empire, and was made a member of the Order of the Polar Star by the King of Sweden, for contributions to ecumenism.
Within the Church of England and the Anglican Communion Mary Tanner was a member of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Commission on Women and the Episcopate and was consultant to the ecumenical sections of the 1988 and 1998 Lambeth Conferences.
Publications include essays in festschrifts for Geoffrey Wainwright, Jean-Marie Tillard, Günther Gaßmann, Hervé Legrand and Harding Meyer. Her most recent publications include a chapter on Robert Runcie and the Anglican Communion in a collection of essays, Runcie: On Reflection, edited by S. Platten; an essay on collegiality in Travelling with Resilience, edited by Elizabeth Templeton, and a chapter on The Gift of Authority in Unpacking the Gift, edited by Peter Fisher.
She has recently been named the first lecturer for the "Jean-Marie Tillard Chair in Ecumenical Studies" at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas - Angelicum, Rome.
Mary is married to John. They have two children, Richard, a cathedral organist, and Lucy a teacher.
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