The Fellowship of Saint Alban and Saint Sergius is a Christian ecumenical society founded in 1928 to foster contact between Christians, especially those of the

Anglican Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...

and

Orthodox Orthodox, Orthodoxy, or Orthodoxism may refer to: Religion * Orthodoxy, adherence to accepted norms, more specifically adherence to creeds, especially within Christianity and Judaism, but also less commonly in non-Abrahamic religions like Neo-pa ...

traditions. It is named in honour of

Saint Alban Saint Alban (; la, Albanus) is venerated as the first-recorded British Christian martyr, for which reason he is considered to be the British protomartyr. Along with fellow Saints Julius and Aaron, Alban is one of three named martyrs recorded ...

, the Christian

protomartyr A protomartyr (Koine Greek, ''πρότος'' ''prótos'' "first" + ''μάρτυρας'' ''mártyras'' "martyr") is the first Christian martyr in a country or among a particular group, such as a religious order. Similarly, the phrase the Protom ...

of Britain, and Saint

Sergius of Radonezh Sergius of Radonezh (russian: Се́ргий Ра́донежский, ''Sergii Radonezhsky''; 14 May 1314 – 25 September 1392), also known as Sergiy Radonezhsky, Serge of Radonezh and Sergius of Moscow, was a spiritual leader and monastic re ...

, a patron saint of Russia. It publishes the periodical ''

Sobornost Sobornost ( rus, собо́рность, p=sɐˈbornəstʲ "spiritual community of many jointly-living people") is a Russian term whose usage is primarily attributed to the 19th-century Slavophile Russian writers Ivan Kireyevsky (1806-1856 ...

'', edited for 30 years by Sergei Hackel, and arranges an annual conference. Its headquarters are currently at Oxford in Britain, and it has branches elsewhere in Britain and in Bulgaria, Denmark, Greece, Romania, Russia and Sweden. There have also been sporadic activities in Canada and the United States. The Fellowship's patrons are Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain, Archbishop Job of Telmessos, Archbishop Angaelos of London, Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia, Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, the Right Reverend Dr. Richard Chartres,

Lord Williams of Oystermouth Rowan Douglas Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth, (born 14 June 1950) is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet. He was the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, a position he held from December 2002 to December 2012. Previously the ...

, and Dr.

Sebastian Brock Sebastian Paul Brock, FBA (born 1938, London) is a British scholar, university professor, and expert in the field of academic studies of Classical Syriac language and Classical Syriac literature. His research also encompasses various aspects of ...

, FBA.

Nicholas Zernov Nicolas Michaelovich Zernov ( - 25 August 1980) (russian: Никола́й Миха́йлович Зёрнов) was a Christian White Emigre, Russian émigré who settled in Britain, and taught theology at Oxford University. He wrote many books a ...

and his wife Militza wrote ''The Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius: a Historical Memoir'' in 1979 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the fellowship.

Literature

* Bryn Geffert, ''Eastern Orthodox and Anglicans: Diplomacy, Theology, and the Politics of Interwar Ecumenism'' Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010. * Dimitrios Filippos Salapatas, ''The Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius: Orthodox and Anglican Ecumenical Relations 1927–2012''. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. . Foreword by

Rowan Williams Rowan Douglas Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth, (born 14 June 1950) is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet. He was the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, a position he held from December 2002 to December 2012. Previously the Bish ...

* Nicolas and Militza Zernov, The Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius: A historical Memoir, Oxford 1979

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* {{Authority control Anglican ecumenism Christian ecumenical organizations Eastern Orthodox organizations established in the 20th century Christian organizations established in 1928

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