Nordic-Baltic Ecumenical Secretaries Meeting January 2025

The Swedish Council of Churches is happy to invite you to Sweden and the Nordic-Baltic Secretaries Meeting held in Höör the 27th to 29th of January, 2025.

Theme
The Ecumenical year 2025

To register
please scroll down to the bottom of this page.

Conference fee
Approximately 5 900 SEK per participant, including accommodation and all food. Final price yet to be confirmed.

Preliminary program:

Monday January 27 in Malmö – Åkersbergs stiftsgård Höör

12.00     Lunch in Malmö. Challenges and possibilities, information on “Stop shooting campaign”. Followed by a lecture.
16.00     Visit the Serbian Orthodox Church in Malmö.
Travel to Höör and Åkersbergs stiftsgård
19.00     Evening prayer – focus Nicaea 325.
19.30     Dinner and a social evening

Tuesday January 28 Åkersbergs stiftsgård Höör

08.15     Morning prayer.
08.30    Session 1. Country reports, thematic discussions. Focus: The Church in the public space in our different countries.
09.30     Session 2. Work and share in smaller groups including coffee
10.30     Session 3. Stockholm 1925, lecture by Bishop Emeritus Jonas Jonson.
11.30     Session 4. Local Ecumenism, Easter and Pentecost 2025. Focus local Ecumenism. How is the situation and how can local ecumenism grow?
12.30     Lunch
13.30     Session 5. Report and updates from CEC, focus Ukraine and the Pathways to Peace, update Charta Oecumenica.
15.00     Coffee Break
15.30     SPA or walk or rest
17.00     Session 6. Interreligious dialogue, new material from Norway on Theology of Religions and/or visit from the Jewish Community in Malmö.
18.30     Evening Prayer
19.00     Dinner

Wednesday January 29

08.30     Morning prayer
09.00     Session 7. Faith & Order. Lecture Archbishop Emeritus Antje Jackelén.
10.30    Coffee break
10.45     Session 8. Nicaea. Tomi Karttunen and Stephanie Dietrich in conversation.
12.30     Lunch
14.00     Session 9 Uniting Church in Sweden – An extraordinary ecumenical journey. Former Church Leader Lasse Svensson in dialogue with Secretary General Sofia Camnerin.
15.30     Coffee
16.00     Closing prayer

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Last day for registration is 1 december 2024.