What full communion agreements do we know about?

Since the Leuenberg Agreement was adopted in 1973, Reformed and Lutheran churches in Europe have shared full communion. This agreement includes Lutheran, Reformed, United, Methodist, Hussite Church, Waldensian Church, the Church of the Czech Brethren, and 5 South American church groups which had been founded by German immigrants ...
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_comm.htm

With a solemn yet joyful worship service October 4, members of four Protestant traditions celebrated their entry into full communion, promising to live "day by day" into deeper commitment to one another. Some 2,000 people jammed into the Gothic-style Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago for the gala event bringing the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Reformed Church in America and the United Church of Christ one step closer together in the long quest for Christian unity ... Each of the denominations had previously approved the bold "full communion" venture that will enable each to share ministers, sacraments and members and operate joint ministries without merging and while still retaining their individual denominational identities ...
Christian Century, Oct 21, 1998
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_n28_v115/ai_21249680

Lutheran churches and Moravian Provinces world-wide have been in virtual full communion, including the interchangeability of ordained clergy and Eucharistic hospitality for decades ... The 1999 Churchwide Assembly voted overwhelmingly to accept the proposal for full communion as it was described in the foundational document, Following Our Shepherd to Full Communion. The Southern and Northern Provinces of the Moravian Church in America also approved this document; the first worship service of full communion was held on January 27, 2000 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The Eastern West Indies Province of the Moravian Church in America joined the relationship of full communion in August 2006. In August 2007, the ELCA extended an invitation to join in full communion to the Alaska Province of the Moravian Church in America ...
http://archive.elca.org/ecumenical/fullcommunion/moravian/

On January 6, 2001, The Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America entered into a relationship of "full communion" on the basis of the document "Called to Common Mission," culminating thirty years of dialogue with one another. Not a merger, in full communion both churches retain their autonomy and structures but agree to work together for join mission and witness in the world. In accord with procedures established in "Called to Common Mission," clergy and laity may move freely between the two churches ...
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/6947_9255_ENG_HTM.htm

Pending:
April 30, 2008
United Methodist Church Adopts Full Communion Proposal with ELCA

FORT WORTH, Texas (ELCA) -- By a vote of 864-19, the General Conference of the United Methodist Church (UMC) adopted an implementing resolution April 28 that will establish full communion with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Full communion will be fully realized by both churches should the same proposal be adopted at the next ELCA Churchwide Assembly, which meets Aug. 17-23, 2009, in Minneapolis ...

http://archive.elca.org/ScriptLib/CO/ELCA_News/encArticleList.asp?article=3850

http://www.ucc.org/ecumenical/ucc-disciples-ecumenical.html


UCC-Disciples Ecumenical Partnership

In 1989 the United Church of Christ and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) approved a historic partnership of full communion. The two churches proclaimed mutual recognition of their sacraments and ordained ministry.

Though remaining two distinct denominations, the UCC and Disciples have committed through their partnership to seek opportunities for common ministry, especially where work together will enhance the mission of the church.

The partnership is a unique experiment in U.S. ecumenism. In every setting of the two churches, UCC members and Disciples are serving Christ side by side. There are now more than 30 "federated" congregations affiliated with both denominations, and it is now common for Disciples and UCC ministers to serve congregations of the other denomination. The Common Global Ministries Board, formed by the UCC's Wider Church Ministries and the Disciples' Division of Overseas Ministries, unites the international mission work of the two churches.

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