From Episcopal Life Online-In Europe, there's no such thing as an average Episcopalian, and it may not be the most obvious place you'd expect to find a group of Episcopal congregations. But the Convocation of American Churches in Europe ministers to a unique and culturally diverse demographic of Christians throughout Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.
Charité Nrusi, for example, fled from Rwanda during the genocide in the mid-1990s. She since has settled in western France, where she joins other Rwandan refugees at the Mission Saint Emmanuel in Rennes.
The Rev. Dorothee Hahn, a German native and former lawyer, is assistant rector at Church of the Ascension in Munich and vicar of mission congregations in Augsburg and Nuremburg.
Most of her pastoral work is bilingual, and her ministry takes her 174 miles round trip, covering terrain that is almost exclusively Protestant.
Denis le Mollac, a lifelong Parisian, fi rst experienced the community at the American Cathedral in Paris in 1977 and was so impressed by the hospitality that he's been a member ever since.
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