According to the ecumenical ecclesiology of the 1920 Lambeth Conference ‘Appeal to All Christian People’, Christians are called to make known to the whole world the fellowship of human persons that is God’s will. They are to do so by means of the visible unity of Christ’s church in faith, sacraments and ministry, which requires the union of churches in each place and the communion of churches in every place, for which universal acceptance of the historic episcopate is pivotal. While this ecumenical ecclesiology faced significant challenges during the following five decades within international Anglican ecumenism, it continued to be widely influential until hopes for the union of churches in each place went into eclipse from the 1970s onwards, with work towards the communion of churches in every place becoming unhinged from it. A re-imagining of the interdependence of local union and universal communion in the contemporary context is needed for the renewal of an ecumenical ecclesiology that holds together unity and mission in a relationship that is not narrowly instrumental but demonstrates the profound inseparability between the communication of Christ and communion in Christ.

根据1920年Lambeth会议“呼吁所有基督徒人民”的普世教会教会学，基督徒被召唤使全世界认识到人类的团契是上帝的旨意。他们要通过基督教会在信仰，圣礼和事工上的可见统一来做到这一点，这需要各地的教会联合和各地的教会交往，为此，对历史主教的普遍接受是至关重要的。尽管这种普世教会主义在随后的五十年里在国际英国国教的普世主义中面临着严峻的挑战，但它仍然具有广泛的影响力，直到每个地方的教会联合的希望从1970年代开始逐渐黯然失色，并致力于在每个地方建立教会的共融。从那里变得毫无障碍的地方。