Participants in the Jan. 20 discussions in Gothenburg, Sweden among leaders of the Communion of Nordic Dioceses and the International Lutheran Council (ILC) are (from left, beginning with the front row): Rev. Roland Gustafsson, presiding bishop of the Swedish Mission Province; Rev. Lars Artman, assisting bishop for the Swedish Mission Province; Rev. Risto Soramies, bishop of the dean of the Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of Finland; Rev. Dr. Albert Collver, ILC executive secretary and LCMS Director of Church Relations; Rev. Jakob Okkels, assistant to the bishop of the Swedish Mission Province; Rev. Dr. Lawrence Rast, president of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Ind., and chairman of the LCMS Commission on Theology and Church Relations; and Rev. Gijsbertus van Hattem, president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Belgium and secretary of the ILC. In the back row, from left, are Rev. Dr. Juhana Pohjalo, dean of the Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of Finland; Rev. Göran Beijer, assisting bishop of the Swedish Mission Province; Rev. Dr. Bengt Birgersson, general secretary for Swedish Mission Province; Rev. Hans-Jörg Voigt, bishop of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany and ILC chairman; Rev. Thor Henrik With, bishop of the Norwegian Mission Province; Rev. Jon Ehlers, chairman of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of England; Rev. Dr. Robert Bugbee, president of Lutheran Church—Canada and ILC vice-chairman; and Rev. Norberto Gerke, president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Paraguay. (International Lutheran Council)
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