Anglican-Roman Catholic Joint Preparatory Commission (ARCJPC)
1967-1968

“The visit of the Archbishop of Canterbury to Pope Paul VI in March 1966, and their decision to constitute an Anglican-Roman Catholic Joint Preparatory Commission, marked a new stage in relations between our two Churches. The three meetings of the Commission, held during 1967 at Gazzada, Huntercombe, and in Malta, were characterized not only by a spirit of charity and frankness, but also by a growing sense of urgency, penitence, thankfulness, and purpose: of urgency, in response to the pressure of God’s will, apprehended as well in the processes of history and the aspirations and achievements of men in his world as in the life, worship, witness, and service of his Church; of penitence, in the conviction of our shared responsibility for cherishing animosities and prejudices which for four hundred years have kept us apart, and prevented our attempting to understand or resolve our differences; of thankfulness for the measure of unity which through baptism into Christ we already share, and for our recent growth towards greater unity and mutual understanding; of purpose, in our determination that the work begun in us by God shall be brought by his grace to fulfilment in the restoration of his peace to his Church and his world.” (The Malta Report, para. 1)

The following list includes all documents in the ARCJPC fonds, sorted by category and date. A list of all ARCJPC documents in order by protocol number is available at iarccum.org/doc/arcjpc/.

See also documents authored by ARCJPC

Agreed Statements

Letters, addresses, & greetings

Communiqués & Press Releases

Minutes & Reports

Study papers

Working correspondence

Miscellaneous documents