The Ecumenical Week in Stockholm
The commemoration of the 100 year remembrance of the Ecumenical Conference in Stockholm 1925 will be held 19-24 Augusti 2025 with focus on peace and fellowship.
This Ecumenical week will link thematically with the focus on peace from the Stockholm Conference where the churches’ calling is, together with all other initiatives for good in society, oppose divisions, polerisation and war. To attain credibility and a just peace, there needs to be a diversity of initiatives: peace between countries, peace between people, peace between different faiths and religions, peace with creation and peace with God.
Various events will be arranged such as lectures, church services, concerts and open-air festivals with many guests from different churches around the world invited. See the preliminary programme below.
Programme 18-24 August
With reservation for changes
18.00 Vesper/Evening prayer every Monday and Thursday evening.
9.30 -17.00 Seminars and lectures Tuesday to Friday
Monday 18 August, 2025
Tuesday 19 August, 2025
Peace in society ”He grants peace to your borders and satisfies you with the finest of wheat” (Ps 147:14)
Wednesday 20 August, 2025
Peace and justice “Love and faithfulness meet together; righteousness and peace kiss each other. Faithfulness springs forth from the earth, and righteousness looks down from heaven. (Ps 85:10-11)
Thursday 21 August, 2025
Focus on interreligious seminars and events. To build peace together. “Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it” (Ps 34:14)
Evening: Concert for peace in the Blue Hall (City Hall) – Building Peace Together
Friday 22 August, 2025
Peace and fellowship “May the mountains bring prosperity to the people, the hills the fruit of righteousness.” (Ps 72:3)
Celebration of the ecumenical movement attended by church leaders followed by a reception at the Nobel Prize Museum (PRELIMINARY)
Evening Praise and worship service at the Stockholm Cathedral.
Friday 22 – Sunday 24 August, Festival of youth in ecumenism 2025
For you between the ages of 18-30. During the Ecumenical week in Stockholm, we invite young people between the ages of 18-30 to a weekend where they participate together in the 100-year jubilee together with all other delegates as well as getting to know one another’s church traditions a little better. The youth can participate in the large praise and worship service on Friday, the open-air festival in Kungsträdgården on Saturday as well as arranging their own programme.
Saturday 23 August, 2025
Morning Pilgrimage where people start walking from 4 different points of the compass in the Stockholm area and arrive together in Kungsträdgården
During the day – Programme in Kungsträdgården
17.00 Ecumenical Festive Service at the Stockholm cathedral.
Sunday 24 August, 2025
Church services held at various churches in the Stockholm area. Church service at Uppsala cathedral.