100th Anniversary of the Malines Conversations #2

On 6th December, a series of centenary celebrations took place in York Minster (https://yorkminster.org/). Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Williams gave an address, to which Mgr Jean Kockerols, Auxiliary Bishop in Mechelen-Brussel, replied. Live video-greetings took place between York Minster and the Sint-Romboutskathedraal in Mechelen, after which a live-streamed Choral Evensong was sung in the Minster, at which The Most Revd and Rt Hon. Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York, preached the sermon. A programme of the celebration may be read here. We look forward to the end of Covid restrictions, which will enable even fuller celebrations of the Malines Conversations, which have influenced so many subsequent Christian ecumenical endeavours, to occur.