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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 and Orthodox traditions. It is named in honour of Saint Alban, the Christian protomartyr of Britain, and Saint Sergius of Radonezh, a patron saint of Russia. It publishes the periodical Sobornost 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.
Nicholas Zernov 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. ISBN9780268029753
Dimitrios Filippos Salapatas, The Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius: Orthodox and Anglican Ecumenical Relations 1927–2012. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. ISBN9781527505476. Foreword by Rowan Williams
Nicolas and Militza Zernov, The Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius: A historical Memoir, Oxford 1979
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