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Article: From Cremona to Edinburgh.
- Article from:
- The Ecumenical Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
- Author:
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Bishop Bonomelli and the World Missionary Conference of 1910
In his article about the early Roman Catholic-Anglican dialogue known as the Malines conversations, John Dick of Louvain University relates the high and low points in this early ecumenical endeavour. After noting the discouragement caused in 1896 by Pope Leo XIII's bull, Apostolicae Curae, which declared Anglican orders invalid, Dick goes on to comment on a more positive ecumenical happening:
In the years immediately preceding the first world war, there had been one
major Protestant ecumenical gathering: the world missionary conference at
Edinburgh in 1910 which many ecumenists now ...