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The Porvoo Communion is a Communion of churches, mostly in Northern and Western Europe, that have signed an agreement to “share a common life in mission and service”. The churches that originally signed the agreement are The Evangelical-Lutheran Churches of Estonia, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Finland, and the Anglican churches: Church of England and of Ireland, Church in Wales and the Scottish Episcopal Church. Two Anglican churches from South Europe also belong to the Porvoo Communion. They are the Lusitanian Church in Portugal and the Reformed Episcopal Church of Spain. The name Porvoo comes from Porvoo Cathedral in Finland where the Eucharist was celebrated on the final Sunday of the conversations leading to the Common Statement and thus finally to the Porvoo Communion.