ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson greets parishioners at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Geneva (Switzerland), where he preached March 16.
ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson [left] and the Rev. Ishmael Noko, LWF general secretary, address news reporters in Geneva on the eve of war with Iraq.
The ELCA delegation and General Secretary Noko met at the LWF offices in Geneva.
The ELCA delegation met with Vatican officials in Vatican City and toured St. Peters Basilica there.
ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson greets Pope John Paul II at a meeting at The Vatican March 24.
ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson addresses Pope John Paul II in a meeting with the ELCA delegation March 24.
Cardinal Walter Kasper [left] president of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, meets with Rev. Jon Enslin, associate director, ELCA Department for Ecumenical Affairs, in Rome.
ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson and his wife, Ione, meet the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, center, during a meeting in London March 28.
Following a special worship service March 29 with a Lutheran congregation in London, ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson presents a gift to the Rev. Walter Jagucki [center] bishop of the Lutheran Church in Great Britain.