declaration is (at least) an exercise of the ordinary magisterium of the episcopally consecrated individuals who authorized the statement. A clarification was issued jointly by the PCPCU and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which is also an exercise of the ordinary magisterium. On 18 July 2006, the World Methodist Council, meeting in Seoul, South Korea, voted unanimously to adopt the document. The leadership of the World Communion of Reformed Churches—representing 80 million members of Congregational, Presbyterian, Reformed, United, Uniting and Waldensian churches—also signed the document and formally associated with it at an ecumenical prayer service on 5 July 2017. In 1986 the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC) produced a statement called "Salvation and the Church", which observed that the two Communions are agreed on the essential aspects of the doctrine of salvation and on the Church’s role within it. Consequently, Anglican Consultative Council Resolution 16.17 "welcomes and affirms the substance of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (JDDJ), signed by Lutherans and Roman Catholics in 1999", in the St. Anne's Church in Augsburg, Germany. References Further reading Response of the Catholic Church to the Joint Declaration of the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation on the Doctrine of Justification 31 october 1999 Angelus by John Paul II on the topic Methodist Statement on Adoption of the Declaration LCMS - The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification in Confessional Lutheran Perspective Official Common Statement by the Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic Church External links Text of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification 20th-century Christian texts Catholic–Protestant ecumenism 20th-century Lutheranism Lutheran texts 20th-century Catholicism 1999 in Christianity