Bonn Agreement (religion)

Red areas - full members of the Union of Utrecht
Pink areas - dependent jurisdictions
Orange - former dependent jurisdictions

The Bonn Agreement of 1931 is a document, negotiated on 2 July 1931 in Bonn, which established full communion between the Church of England and the Old Catholic churches of the Union of Utrecht, including the Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands. This full communion has since been extended to all churches of the Anglican Communion through their synods.

The agreement expresses three principles:

1. Each communion recognizes the catholicity and independence of the other and maintains its own.
2. Each communion agrees to admit members of the other communion to participate in the sacraments.
3. Full communion does not require from either communion the acceptance of all doctrinal opinion, sacramental devotion or liturgical practice characteristic of the other, but implies that each believes the other to hold all the essentials of the Christian faith.

To monitor the progressive growing together of the two communions, the Anglican-Old Catholic International Co-ordinating Council was established by the International Bishops' Conference and the Lambeth Conference. Its first official meeting took place in 1999.

See also

• Willibrord Society