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Bishop John C. Bauerschmidt was elected the eleventh bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee in 2006. Bishop Bauerschmidt has worked diligently to heal the divisions within his diocese that reflect the sharp difference of views within the Episcopal Church and the broader Anglican Communion. He is an avid supporter of the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission’s methodology of accompaniment in fulfilling the mission of the church. He is a past chair of the board of the church’s publication The Living Church and is a trustee of the Anglican Digest.

Archbishop Donald Joseph Bolen is the Catholic Archbishop of Regina on the Canadian prairies and is co-chair of the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission. He has chaired several committees for the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, including their Ecumenical Commission. In 2012, he was appointed a member of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity and has served in other capacities in the ecumenical movement nationally and internationally.

Dr. John Borelli, a historian of religions and theologian, is special assistant for Catholic identity and dialogue to President John J. DeGioia of Georgetown University. Borelli has been at Georgetown University since 2004, where he teaches, manages conferences and events, coordinates dialogues, facilitates workshops, and promotes university relations with offices and institutes of the Holy See.

Bishop John Michael Botean is the bishop (eparch) of the Greek Catholic (Romanian) Eparchy of St. George in Canton, Ohio. He serves on the Holy Synod of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church and is a member of the Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Much of Bishop Botean’s work has been organizing his eparchy, created in 1987.

Bishop Robert Innes is the Anglican bishop in Europe and co-chair of the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission. He studied theology for his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees at St. John’s College, Durham University, and taught systematic theology for four years at the Anglican Seminary, Cranmer Hall. He chairs the Church of England’s Faith and Order Commission, co-chairs the Anglican dialogue with French Protestants, chairs the governors of St. John’s College, Durham University, and holds other ecumenical and pastoral positions.

Archbishop Samuel Enosa Peni was appointed the second Archbishop of Anglican Western Equatoria Internal Province in 2019. He also serves as the fourth bishop of the Diocese of Yambio, South Sudan. Archbishop Peni studied at the University of Dubuque and Wartburg Theological Seminary, receiving a Master of Arts in Theology in 2009 and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Divinity 10 years later in 2019. He chairs the Inter Church Committee, which is the ecumenical leaders fellowship in Western Equatoria State in South Sudan, where much of the church’s work is devoted to addressing poverty, education, trauma healing, displacement, and refugees.