Freja Arendt pouring water into a bowl in the Cathedral (CEC-photo/Hanno Gutmann EPD-bild)

Metropolitan Jeremie of Switzerland in the Cathedral  (CEC-photo/Geir Otto Johansen)

Opening service in the Nidaros Cathedral  (CEC-photo/Hanno Gutmann EPD-bild)

Outside the Nidaros Cathdral after the opening service  (CEC-photo/G. Westermoen)

Prime Minister of Norway Kjell Magne Bondevik adressing the General Assembly.  (CEC-photo/Geir Otto Johansen)

His All Holiness Ecumenical  Patriarch Bartolomew and bishop of Nidaros Finn Wagle in the Nidaros Cathedral at the opening service (CEC-photo/G. Westermoen)

Pasteur Jean- Arnold De Clermont, Moderator for the Assembly  (CEC-photo/G. Westermoen)

Participants walking across the bridge to the Assembly Hall  (CEC-photo/G. Westermoen)

Participants walking to the Assembly Hall  (CEC-photo/Geir Otto Johansen)

HM King Harald V and Nidaros Bishop Finn Wagle after the opening Service June 26 (CEC-photo/G. Westermoen)

From left: HM King Harald V, Nidaros Bishop Finn Wagle, Norways`Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, His All Holiness Ecumenical  Patriarch Bartolomew and His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios after the opening Service in the Nidaros Cathedral. (CEC-photo/G. Westermoen)

His All Holiness Ecumenical  Patriarch Bartolomew lifts up a child outside Nidaros Cathedral (CEC-photo/Geir Otto Johansen)