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

Anglican Communion The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Founded in 1867 in London, the communion has more than 85 million members within the Church of England and other ...

. 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

Lewisham Lewisham () is an area of southeast London, England, south of Charing Cross. It is the principal area of the London Borough of Lewisham, and was within the historic county of Kent until 1889. It is identified in the London Plan as one of ...

between the Revd H. J. Fynes-Clinton and the Revd Canon John Albert Douglas. 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 '' Stephen Graham'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 Project Canterbury {{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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