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THE PORVOO PRAYER CALENDAR 2008
(Invitation to Prayer 2007)
Introduction
The Porvoo Declaration commits the churches which have signed it 'to share a common life' and 'to pray for and with one another'. An important way of doing this is to pray through the year for the Porvoo churches and their Dioceses.
This new format Prayer Calendar replaces the Prayer Diary which was used during the first ten years after the signing of the Porvoo Declaration in 1996.
We have simplified the content, providing a list of Dioceses or churches covering each Sunday of the year, mindful of the many calls upon compilers of intercessions, and the environmental and production costs of printing a more elaborate list.
Those using the calendar are invited to choose one day each week on which they will pray for the Porvoo churches. It is hoped that individuals and parishes, cathedrals and religious orders will make use of the Calendar in their own cycle of prayer week by week.
In addition to the churches which have approved the Porvoo Declaration, we continue to pray for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia and the Church of Denmark. Observers from both churches attend all the meetings held under the Agreement.
The Calendar may be freely copied or emailed for wider circulation.
Published on behalf of the Porvoo Contact Group by the Council for Christian Unity of the Church of England, October 2007.
Canon Charles Hill, Anglican Co-Secretary of the Porvoo Contact Group.
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JANUARY
- 4/1 - Tampere (Bishop Matti Repo), Manchester (Bishop Nigel McCulloch, Bishop Stephen Lowe, Bishop Chris Edmondson, Bishop Mark Davies)
- 11/1 - Birmingham (Bishop David Urquhart, Bishop Andrew Watson), Cork Cloyne and Ross (Bishop Paul Colton)
- 18/1 - Bangor (Bishop Andrew John), Dublin and Glendalough (Archbishop John Neill)
- 25/1 - Worcester (Bishop John Inge, Bishop David Walker), Hamar (Bishop Solveig Fiske)
FEBRUARY
- 1/2 - Bradford (Bishop David James), Limerick and Killaloe (Bishop Trevor Williams)
- 8/2 - Peterborough (Bishop Ian Cundy (retiring July 2009), Bishop Frank White), Meath and Kildare (Bishop Richard Clarke)
- 15/2 - Canterbury (Archbishop Rowan Willliams, Bishop Stephen Venner, Bishop Graham Cray), Karlstad (Bishop Esbjorn Hagberg)
- 22/2 - Chelmsford (Bishop John Gladwin, Bishop David Hawkins, Bishop Laurie Green, Bishop Christopher Morgan), Denmark (Bishop Erik Norman Svendsen)
MARCH
- 1/3 - Latvia (Archbishop Janis Vanags), Lichfield (Bishop Jonathan Gledhill, Bishop Alan Smith, Bishop Gordon Mursell, Bishop Clive Gregory), St Davids (Bishop Wyn Evans)
- 8/3 - Lund (Bishop Antje Jackelen), Cashel and Ossory (Bishop Michael Burrows)
- 15/3 - Lincoln (Bishop John Saxbee, Bishop David Rossdale, Bishop Timothy Ellis), Armagh (Archbishop Alan Harper)
- 22/3 - Uppsala (Archbishop Anders Wejryd, Bishop Ragnar Persenius), Llandaff (Archbishop Barry Morgan)
- 29/3 - Derby (Bishop Alastair Redfern, Bishop Humphrey Southern), Clogher (Bishop Michael Jackson)
APRIL
- 5/4 - Blackburn (Bishop Nicholas Reade, Bishop Geoffrey Pearson, Bishop John Goddard), Brechin (Bishop John Mantle)
- 12/4 - Gothenburg (Bishop Carl Axel Aurelius), Glasgow and Galloway (Bishop Idris Jones)
- 19/4 - Southwark (Bishop Tom Butler, Bishop Nicholas Baines, Bishop Richard Cheetham, Bishop Christopher Chessun), Björgvin (Bishop Halvor Nordhaug)
- 26/4 - Gloucester (Bishop Michael Perham, Bishop John Went), Västerås (Bishop Thomas Söderberg)
MAY
- 3/5 - Guildford (Bishop Christopher Hill, Bishop Ian Brackley), Visby (Bishop Lennart Koskinen)
- 10/5 - Exeter (Bishop Michael Langrish, Bishop Robert Evens, Bishop John Ford, Nord-Hålogaland (Bishop Per Oskar Kjølaas)
- 17/5 - Hereford (Bishop Anthony Priddis, Bishop Michael Hooper), The Lusitanian Church, Portugal (Bishop Fernando da Luz Soares)
- 24/5 - Iceland (Bishop Karl Sigurbjornsson, Bishop Sigurdur Sigurdarson, Bishop Jon Baldvinsson), The Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church (Bishop Carlos Lopez Lozano)
JUNE
- 1/6 - Chichester (Bishop John Hind, Bishop Wallace Benn), Mikkeli (Bishop Voitto Huotari)
- 7/6 - Linköping ((Bishop Martin Lind), Argyll and the Isles (Episcopal Church of Scotland), Connor (Bishop Alan Abernethy)
- 14/6 - Diocese in Europe (Bishop Geoffrey Rowell, Bishop David Hamid), Down and Dromore (Bishop Harold Miller)
- 21/6 - Ely (Bishop Anthony Russell, Bishop David Thomson), Härnösand (Bishop Tony Gulbrandzen)
- 28/6 - Saint Albans vacancy, Bishop Richard Inwood, Bishop Christopher Foster), Syd-Hålogaland (Bodö) (Bishop Tor Berger Jørgensen)
JULY
- 5/7 - Newcastle (Bishop Martin Wharton, Bishop Paul Richardson), Möre (Molde) (Bishop Odd Bondevik)
- 12/7 - Skara (Bishop Erik Aurelius), Wakefield (Bishop Stephen Platten, Bishop Anthony Robinson)
- 19/7 - Lithuania (Bishop Mindaugas Sabutis), Derry and Raphoe (Bishop Kenneth Good)
- 26/7 -Bristol (Bishop Michael Hill, Bishop Lee Rayfield), Helsinki (Bishop Eero Huovinen)
AUGUST
- 2/8 - Portsmouth (Bishop Kenneth Stevenson), Stockholm (Bishop Caroline Krook retiring, election of successor in 2009)
- 9/8 - Ripon and Leeds (Bishop John Packer, Bishop James Bell), Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh (Bishop Kenneth Clarke)
- 16/8 - Turku (Archbishop Jukka Paarma, Bishop Kari Makinen), Edinburgh (Bishop Brian Smith)
- 23/8 - York (Archbishop John Sentamu, Bishop Richard Frith, Bishop Martin Wallace, vacancy), Espoo (Bishop Mikko Heikka)
- 30/8 - Salisbury (Bishop David Stancliffe, Bishop Stephen Conway, vacancy), St Asaph (Bishop-Elect Gregory Cameron)
SEPTEMBER
- 6/9 - Tuam Killala and Achonry (Bishop Richard Henderson), Bath and Wells (Bishop Peter Price, Bishop Peter Maurice)
- 13/9 - Sheffield (Bishop Steven Croft, Bishop Cyril Ashton), Sodor and Man (Bishop Robert Paterson)
- 20/9 - Swansea and Brecon (Bishop Anthony Pierce), Leicester (Bishop Tim Stevens)
- 27/9 - Liverpool (Bishop James Jones, Bishop David Jennings), Monmouth (Bishop Dominic Walker)
OCTOBER
- 4/10 - Nidaros (Bishop Tor Singsaas), London (Bishop Richard Chartres, Bishop Stephen Oliver, Bishop Peter Wheatley, Bishop Pete Broadbent, Bishop Paul Williams)
- 11/10 - Truro (Bishop Tim Thornton, Bishop Royden Screech), Tönsberg (Bishop Laila Riksaasen Dahl), Strängnäs (Bishop Hans-Erik Nordin)
- 18/10 - Växjö (Bishop Sven Thidevall), Oxford (Bishop John Pritchard, Bishop Stephen Cottrell, Bishop Colin Fletcher, Bishop Alan Wilson)
- 25/10 - Carlisle (Bishop Graham Dow, Bishop James Newcome), Stavanger (vacancy)
NOVEMBER
- 1/11 - Winchester (Bishop Michael Scott-Joynt, Bishop Paul Butler, Bishop Trevor Willmott), Agder (Bishop Olav Skjevesland)
- 8/11 - Norwich Norwich (Bishop Graham James, Bishop David Atkinson, Bishop James Langstaff), Luleå (Bishop Hans Stiglund)
- 15/11 - Estonia (Archbishop Andres Pöder), Rochester (Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop Brian Castle)
- 22/11 - St Edmundsbury and Ipswich (Bishop Nigel Stock, Bishop Clive Young), Lapua (Bishop Simo Peura), Aberdeen and Orkney (Bishop Robert Gillies)
- 29/11 - St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane (Bishop David Chillingworth), Porvoo (Bishop Gustav Björkstrand)
DECEMBER
- 6/12 - Chester (Bishop Peter Forster, Bishop Keith Sinclair, vacancy), Kuopio (Bishop Wille Riekkinen)
- 13/12 - Southwell and Nottingham (Bishop George Cassidy, Bishop Anthony Porter), Borg (Bishop Helga Haugland Byfuglien)
- 20/12 - Oslo (Bishop Ole Christian Kvarme), Durham (Bishop Tom Wright, Bishop Mark Bryant), Moray Ross and Caithness (Bishop Mark Strange)
- 27/12 - Uleåborg (Bishop Samuel Salmi), Coventry (Bishop Chris Cocksworth, Bishop John Stroyan)
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