The Rev. Mark S. Hanson, ELCA presiding bishop and president of the LWF, leads a delegation of ELCA clergy and lay leaders to visit world church leaders in London, Istanbul, Rome and Geneva, February 3–17, 2010.
The Rev. E. Roy Riley Jr., standing, bishop of the ELCA New Jersey Synod and chair of the ELCA Conference of Bishops, reads a formal greeting from the ELCA to His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, seated, during a March 17 meeting in Istanbul.
His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, world Orthodox Church leader, addressed the ELCA delegation in Istanbul March 17, 2006. Seated are, from left, the Rev. E. Roy Riley Jr., bishop of the ELCA New Jersey Synod and chair of the ELCA Conference of Bishops; and the Rev. Lowell G. Almen, ELCA secretary. Almen and Riley were delegation leaders.
The Rev. Mark S. Hanson, ELCA presiding bishop and president of the LWF, leads a delegation of ELCA clergy and lay leaders to visit world church leaders in London, Istanbul, Rome and Geneva, February 3–17, 2010.
The Rev. Mark S. Hanson, ELCA presiding bishop and president of the LWF, leads a delegation of ELCA clergy and lay leaders to visit world church leaders in London, Istanbul, Rome and Geneva, February 3–17, 2010.
The Rev. Mark S. Hanson, ELCA presiding bishop and president of the LWF, leads a delegation of ELCA clergy and lay leaders to visit world church leaders in London, Istanbul, Rome and Geneva, February 3–17, 2010.
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