¹ See Anglican Consultative Council, The Principles of Canon Law Common to the Churches of the Anglican Communion, 2nd edn (London, 2022). In his foreword to the 2022 edition, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby commended The Principles of Canon Law Common to the Churches of the Anglican Communion, calling them ‘absolutely essential as a point from which there can be greater development and discussion of church order’.

² See pages 331 to 334 of this Journal and preceding conference reports of the Colloquium of Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon Lawyers in Ecc LJ passim.

³ Doe, N (ed), Church Laws and Ecumenism: A New Path for Christian Unity (Routledge, 2021)Google Scholar.

⁴ The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark; The Church of England; The Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church; The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland; The Church of Iceland; The Church of Ireland; The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lithuania; The Church of Norway; The Lusitanian Church of Portugal; The Scottish Episcopal Church; The Reformed Episcopal Church of Spain; The Church of Sweden; The Church in Wales; The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia Abroad; and The Lutheran Church in Great Britain. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia has observer status.

⁵ Eckerdal, E, Apostolic Succession in the Porvoo Common Statement: Unity Through a Deeper Sense of Apostolicity (Uppsala, 2017)Google Scholar, available at <https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1129750/FULLTEXT01.pdf>, accessed 14 May 2024.