The Anglican and Eastern Churches Association is a religious organisation founded as the Eastern Church Association in 1864 by

John Mason Neale John Mason Neale (24 January 1818 – 6 August 1866) was an English Anglican priest, scholar and hymnwriter. He worked and wrote on a wide range of holy Christian texts, including obscure medieval hymns, both Western and Eastern. Among his most ...

and others and of which

Athelstan Riley John Athelstan Laurie Riley (10 August 1858 – 17 November 1945) was an English hymn writer and hymn translator. Riley was born in Paddington, London, and attended Pembroke College, Oxford, where obtained his BA in 1881 and MA in 1883. Active ...

was a leading member. The purpose for which it was founded is to pray and work for the reunion of the

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and the

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. In 1914 it adopted the present name when it merged with the Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Churches Union. According to tradition the merger was arranged at a meeting under a railway bridge in

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between the Revd H. J. Fynes-Clinton and the Revd Canon

John Albert Douglas John Albert Douglas (21 September 1868 – 3 July 1956) was a priest of the Church of England and a major figure in Anglican–Orthodox relations in the 20th century. Douglas was a member of the Anglican and Eastern Churches Association and the F ...

. In 1933 there was a dispute between Fynes-Clinton and Fr Robert Corbould on one side and Athelstan Riley and Douglas on the other. The association publishes ''Koinonia: the journal of the Anglican and Eastern Churches Association''; this continues ''E.C.N.L.'' which was the continuation of ''The Christian East'', a quarterly magazine, 1920-1954.Publication suspended July 1938 to February 1950 Also issued by the association was ''

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's News Letter about the Orthodox Churches in War Time'', issued monthly from 1940 to 1943, which was continued by the ''Eastern Churches Broadsheet'', 1944 to 1954; after this came the ''Eastern Churches News-Letter'', from Jan. 1955.

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by Henry R. T. Brandreth (1945) from

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{{Authority control Anglican ecumenism Religious organizations established in 1864 Eastern Orthodox organizations established in the 19th century Eastern Orthodox ecumenical and interfaith relations Christian ecumenical organizations

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