A handbook of councils and churches profiles of ecumenical relationships

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Alphabetical Index of Part I

Anglican churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Anglican Communion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Anglican Consultative Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Baptist churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Baptist World Alliance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
The Catholic Church. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Cevaa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Christian Holiness Partnership. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Christian World Communions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Churches of Christ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Community of Churches in Mission –Cevaa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Council for World Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Comparative table I CWCs/WCC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Comparative table II CWCs/WCC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Disciples of Christ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Disciples Ecumenical Consultative Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Ecumenical Patriarchate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Evangelical churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Friends World Committee for Consultation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Global Christian Forum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Global Mission Communions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Holiness churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
International Lutheran Council. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
International Old-Catholic Bishops’ Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Lutheran churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Lutheran World Federation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Mennonite churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Mennonite World Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Methodist churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Moravian churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Moravian Unity Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Old-Catholic churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Orthodox Church (Eastern). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Orthodox churches (Oriental) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Pentecostal churches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Pentecostal World Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Quakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Reformed churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Reformed Ecumenical Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
The Salvation Army . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Seventh-day Adventist Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
United and Uniting churches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
United Evangelical Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
World Alliance of Reformed Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
World Convention of Churches of Christ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
World Council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
World Council of Churches –member churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
World Council of Churches – member churches by church family . . . . . 14
World Council of Churches – member churches by region. . . . . . . . . . 14
World Evangelical Alliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
World Methodist Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Countries and Territories Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

New Zealand . . . . . . . . . 228

Africa Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Algeria. . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Philippines. . . . . . . . . . 298

Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Singapore. . . . . . . . . . . 303
Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Sri Lanka. . . . . . . . . . . 306
Botswana. . . . . . . . . . . 117 Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Burkina Faso. . . . . . . . . 117 Thailand. . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Timor Lorosa’e . . . . . . . . 310
Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Congo, Republic of . . . . . . 126 Caribbean
Congo, Democratic Rep. of 317
. . 127 Antigua & Barbuda . . . . . . Equatorial Guinea . . . . . . 137 Bahamas . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Barbados. . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . 144 Dominica. . . . . . . . . . . 325
Ghana 325
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire) . . 152 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
. . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Netherlands Antilles . . . . . 332
Kenya. Lesotho . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . 333
Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Saint Kitts & Nevis . . . . . . 335
Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . 166 Saint Vincent Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 & the Grenadines . . . . . . . 335
Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Suriname. . . . . . . . . . . 335
Mozambique 337
. . . . . . . . . 172 Trinidad & Tobago . . . . . . Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Nigeria. . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 _EuropeRwanda

. . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Albania. . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Sierra Leone.^{. . . . . . . . . 188}Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
South Africa

^{. . . . . . . . . 191}Austria. . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Sudan.^{. . . . . . . . . . . . 202}Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
Swaziland

. . . . . . . . . . . 205 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

^{Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . 206}Czech Republic . . . . . . . . 361
Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 _{Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . 366}

Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Zambia. . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 _{Finland . . . . . . . . . . . .} 371
Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . 217 France . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Germany . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Asia Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Aotearoa New Zealand 403

. . . . 228 Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . Australia. . . . . . . . . . . . 234 Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . 238 Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Cambodia 412
. . . . . . . . . . . 241 Italy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . China. . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Latvia. . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
Hong Kong SAR . . . . . . . 243 Lithuania. . . . . . . . . . . 419
India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Indonesia. . . . . . . . . . . 256 Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . 419
Japan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 Norway. . . . . . . . . . . . 426
Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Malaysia 434

. . . . . . . . . . . . 287 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . Myanmar. . . . . . . . . . . 290 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Russian Federation . . . . . . 442

Serbia & Montenegro . . . . . 444
Slovakia . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . 452
Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452
Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . 459
Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
United Kingdom . . . . . . . 465

Latin America
Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . 489

Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497

Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499
Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . 510
El Salvador . . . . . . . . . . 511
Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . . 514
Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
Middle East

Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528

COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES?

Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530

Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534

Israel / Palestine . . . . . . . 535
Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . 537
Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541

North America
Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547

USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553

Pacific
American Samoa . . . . . . . 585

Cook Islands . . . . . . . . . 587

Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588
French Polynesia . . . . . . . 590
Kiribati . . . . . . . . . . . . 591
Marshall Islands . . . . . . . 593
New Caledonia . . . . . . . . 594
Niue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595
Papua New Guinea . . . . . . 597
Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600
Solomon Islands . . . . . . . 602
Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605
Tuvalu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607
Vanuatu . . . . . . . . . . . . 608

*Council of Christian Churches in Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

*Botswana Council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
*National Council of Churches of Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
*Council of Protestant Churches of Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
*Ecumenical Council of Christian Churches of Congo . . . . . . . . . . 126
*Council of Evangelical Churches of Equatorial Guinea . . . . . . . . . 137
*The Gambia Christian Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
*Christian Council of Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Christian Council of Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
National Council of Churches of Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Christian Council of Lesotho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
*Liberian Council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
*Council of Christian Churches in Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Federation of Protestant Churches in Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
*Malawi Council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Council of Christian Churches in Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Christian Council of Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
*Council of Churches in Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
*Christian Council of Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Christian Association of Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
*Protestant Council of Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
*Council of Churches in Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
*South African Council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
*Sudan Council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
New Sudan Council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
*Council of Swaziland Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
*Christian Council of Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Christian Council of Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
*Uganda Joint Christian Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
*Council of Churches in Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
*Zimbabwe Council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Asia
*Maori Council of Churches in Aotearoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

*National Council of Churches in Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

National Council of Churches - Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Kampuchea Christian Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
*Hong Kong Christian Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
*National Council of Churches in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
*Communion of Churches in Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
*National Christian Council in Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
*National Council of Churches in Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
*Council of Churches of Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Christian Federation of Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
*Myanmar Council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
National Council of Churches of Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
National Council of Churches in Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
*National Council of Churches in the Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

*National Council of Churches of Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

*National Christian Council of Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

National Council of Churches of Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Caribbean
Antigua Christian Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Bahamas Christian Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Barbados Christian Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Belize Council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
*Cuban Council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Dominica Christian Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Guyana Council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Protestant Federation of Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
*Jamaica Council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Curaçao Council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
*Council of Churches of Porto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
St Kitts Christian Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
*StVincent & the Grenadines Christian Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Committee of Christian Churches in Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Christian Council of Trinidad & Tobago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Europe
*Ecumenical Council of Churches in Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Consultation of Christian Churches in Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Ecumenical Coordinating Committee of Churches in Croatia . . . . . . 361
*Ecumenical Council of Churches in the Czech Republic . . . . . . . . . 362
*National Council of Churches in Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
Estonian Council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
*Finnish Ecumenical Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
*French Protestant Federation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
Council of Christian Churches in France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
*Council of Christian Churches in Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
*Ecumenical Council of Churches in Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
Irish Council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
Irish Inter-Church Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Ecumenical Council of Churches of Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Malta Ecumenical Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
*Council of Churches in the Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
SKIN –Together Church in the Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
*Christian Council of Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
Council of Free Churches in Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
*Polish Ecumenical Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Portuguese Council of Christian Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434
Ecumenical Association of Churches in Romania – AIDRom . . . . . . 437
*Ecumenical Council of Churches in Serbia & Montenegro . . . . . . . 445
*Ecumenical Council of Churches in the Slovak Republic . . . . . . . . 448
Council of Christian Churches in Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452
Spanish Committee of Cooperation between the Churches . . . . . . . . 453
*Christian Council of Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456
Swedish Free Church Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456
*Council of Christian Churches in Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
*Churches Together in Britain and Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
*Churches Together in England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Free Churches Group (England and Wales) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

*Cytun, Churches Together in Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474
Covenanted Churches within Cytun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
*Action by Churches Together in Scotland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Latin America
Argentine Federation of Evangelical Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490

Ecumenical Commission of Christian Churches in Argentina . . . . . . 490

Pentecostal Evangelical Confederation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
*National Council of Christian Churches of Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Christian Fellowship of Churches in Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
Ecumenical Fellowship of Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506
Ecumenical Network of Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510
Ecumenical Committee of Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
National Evangelical Council of Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518
Federation of Evangelical Churches of Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
Council of Christian Churches of Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521

North America
*Canadian Council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547

Christian Churches Together in the USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555

*National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA . . . . . . . . . . . 554

Pacific
*National Council of Churches in American Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . 585

Cook Islands Religious Advisory Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587

Fiji Council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589
Kiribati National Council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592
Niune National council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596
*Papua New Guinea Council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597
*Samoa Council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600
Solomon Islands Christian Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603
*Tonga National Council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606

Vanuatu Christian Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609

Fellowship of Christian Councils and Churches of Central Africa . . . . 109

Fellowship of Christian Councils and Churches
in the Great Lakes and the Horn of Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Fellowship of Christian Councils in Southern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Fellowship of Christian Councils and Churches in West Africa . . . . . 110
Asia

South Asian Council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Europe
Conference of Protestant Churches in Latin Countries of Europe . . . . 351

Conference of Churches on the Rhine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

All Africa Conference of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Organization of African Instituted Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Asia

Christian Conference of Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Caribbean

Caribbean Conference of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Europe
Community of Protestant Churches in Europe - Leuenberg Fellowship . 345
Conference of European Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Council of Christian Churches of an African Approach in Europe . . . . 348

Latin America
Latin American Council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

Latin American Evangelical Pentecostal Commission . . . . . . . . . . . 487

Middle East
Fellowship of Middle East Evangelical Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

Middle East Council of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525

Pacific

Index of National / Christian / Ecumenical Councils / Federations of Churches

Africa

Sub-regional Fellowships / Conferences / Councils

Africa

Regional Ecumenical Organizations / Regional Church Bodies

Africa

Pacific Conference of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583

Harare (Zimbabwe)	1998	Turn to God – Rejoice in Hope
Porto Alegre (Brazil)	2006	God, in your Grace, Transform the World
New perspectives

Church family	Total	Number	Number	Total church
	member	of member	of member	membership
	churches	churches %	membership	%
African Instituted	9	2,6%	26,703,129	4,5%
Anglican	32	9,2%	78,003,190	13,2%
Baptist	25	7,2%	22,969,780	3,9%
Disciples	6	1,7%	1,518,306	<1%
Free church	17	4,9%	1,546,063	<1%
Lutheran	54	15,5%	59,656,695	10,1%
Methodist	38	10,9%	24,716,554	4,2%
Old Catholic	5	1,4%	82,621	<1%
Orthodox (Eastern)	15	4,3%	214,204,830	36,2%
Orthodox (Oriental)	7	2%	65,694,642	11,1%
Pentecostal	7	2%	281,600	<1%
Reformed	97	27,8%	40,444,865	6,8%
United & Uniting	28	8%	32,811,114	5,5%

Churches which are not included in any of the above families:
Assyrian	1	<1%	323,300	<1%
Hussite	1	<1%	102,000	<1%
Independent	3	<1%	6,059,000	1%
Mar Thoma	1	<1%	1,061,940	<1%
Non-denominational	1	<1%	108,806	<1%
Post-denominational	1	<1%	16,000,000	2,7%
Total	348	100%	592,288,435	100%
*Based on the statistics provided by the member churches for the purpose of this book.
WCC member churches by region*

Region	Total	Number	Total	Total church
	member	of member	church	membership
	churches	churches %	membership	%
Africa	93	27%	165,628,446	28%
Asia	74	21%	60,380,595	10%
Caribbean	13	4%	1,359,172	<1%
Europe	81	23%	292,094,184	49%
Latin America	27	8%	4,436,083	<1%
Middle East	12	3%	15,315,800	3%
North America	31	9%	50,570,380	8%
Pacific	17	5%	2,503,775	<1%
Total	348	100%	592,288,435	100%

Christian World Communion	Number of churches	WCC membeNumber	rs%
Oriental Orthodox	7	7	100
United and Uniting Churches	51	49	94
Eastern Orthodox	18	15	83,3
International Old-Catholic Bishops’ Conference	6	5	83,3
Anglican Communion	44	36	82
World Methodist Council	76	59	77,6
Moravian Unity Board	19*	12	63
World Alliance of Reformed Churches	218	121	55
Disciples Ecumenical Consultative Council	19	10	52,6
Lutheran World Federation	140	73	52
Friends World Committee for Consultation	103**	43	41,7
Reformed Ecumenical Council	39	10	25,6
Baptist World Alliance	211	25	11,8
Mennonite World Conference	95	3	3,2
Salvation Army	58***	0	0
World Evangelical Alliance	?	6****
Pentecostals (Classical)	?	7
Holiness Churches (Christian Holiness Partnership)	21	0	0
Seventh-day Adventist General Conference*****		0	0

Christian World Communion	Number of Christians	WCC members Number	%
Oriental Orthodox	65,694,642	65,694,652	100
Anglican Communion	85,234,199**	83,518,812	98
Moravian Unity Board	797,000	790,339	99
International Old Catholic Bishops’ Conf.	115,000	82,621	72
Eastern Orthodox	228,100,000	214,204,830	94
Lutheran World Federation	66,000,000	59,656,695	90,3
World Methodist Council	40,000,000	33,584,821	84
United and Uniting Churches	80191629	72,323,924	90
Disciples Ecumenical Consult. Council	4,500,000	3,613,306	80,3
World Alliance of Reformed Churches	76,000,000	49,881,871	65,6
Baptist World Alliance***	35,000,000	21,430,217	61
Friends World Cttee for Consultation	368,000	203,800	55
Reformed Ecumenical Council	12,000,000	4,621,000	38,5
Mennonite World Conference	1,051,806	102,524	9,7
World Evangelical Alliance	380,000,000	4,703,346	1,2****
Pentecostals (Classical)	78,000,000	260,600	<1%
Holiness Churches	12,000,000	0	0
Salvation Army	1,600,000	0	0
Seventh-day Adventists General Conf.	14,000,000	0	0

Bangkok	1964	The Christian Community within the Human Community
Bangkok	1968	In Christ All Things Hold Together
Singapore	1973	Christian in the Asian Struggle
Penang	1977	Jesus Christ in Asian Suffering and Hope
Bangalore	1981	Living in Christ with People
Seoul	1985	Jesus Christ Sets Free to Serve
Manila	1990	Christ our Peace: Building a Just Society
Colombo	1995	Hope in God in a Changing Asia
Tomohon	2000	Time for Fullness of Life for All
Chiang Mai	2005	Building Communities of Peace for All

assemblies:
Kingston (Jamaica)	1973	(Inaugural Assembly)
Georgetown (Guyana)	1977	Working Together with Christ
Willemstad (Curaçao)	1981	Thine is the Kingdom, the Power
		and the Glory
Bridgetown (Barbados)	1986	Jesus Christ: Justice, Hope, Peace
Port of Spain (Trinidad & Tobago)	1991	Participants in God’s World –
		Preserve, Renew, Recreate
Havana (Cuba)	1997	New Vision, New Hope, New Life
Panama City ( Panama)	2005	Healing and Transformation.
		Given in Christ, Fulfilled Through

ness together:
Nyborg (Denmark)	1959	European Christianity in Today’s Secularized
		World
Nyborg	1960	The Service of the Church in a Changing World
Nyborg	1962	The Church in Europe and the Crisis
		of Modern Man
At sea	1964	Living Together as Continents and Generations
Pörtschach (Austria)	1967	To Serve and Reconcile – the Task
		of the European Churches Today
Nyborg	1971	Service of God, Service of Men
Engleberg (Switzerland)	1974	Act on the Message – Unity in Christ
		and Peace in the World
Chania, Crete (Greece)	1979	Alive to the World in the Power of the Holy Spirit
Stirling (Scotland)	1986	Glory to God and Peace on Earth
Prague (Czech Republic)	1992	God Unites – in Christ a New Creation
Graz (Austria)	1997	Reconciliation, Gift of God and Source
		of New Life
Trondheim (Norway)	2003	Jesus Christ Heals and Reconciles:
		Our Witness in Europe

Huampaní (Peru)	1982	Jesus Christ, a calling committed to the kingdom
Indaiatuba (Brazil)	1988	Church: towards hope in solidarity
Concepción (Chile)	1995	Being born anew for a living hope
Barranquilla (Colombia)	2001	Free to build peace

Nicosia	1974	Our Common Christian Message Today
Broummana, Lebanon	1977	… and He gave us the Ministry of Reconciliation
Nicosia	1980	Your Kingdom Come
Nicosia	1985	The Living Hope
Nicosia	1990	Keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace
Limassol	1994	Peace I Leave With You, My Peace I Give Unto You
Beirut	1999	Jesus Christ is the Same, Yesterday, Today,
		and Forever
Limassol	2003	Abide in My Love

churches.
*Distribution:		**Dioceses:
Middle East:	300,000	Syria	4	Europe	4
Asia:	700,000	Lebanon	3	North America	4
Europe:	170,000	Jordan	1	Australia	1
Latin America:	100,000	Turkey	3	South Africa	2
North America:	160,000	Iraq	3	India	14

Davuilevu (Fiji)	1971	God’s Purpose for His People
Port Moresby (PNG)	1976	God’s Mission in the Changing Pacific Society
Nuku’alofa (Tonga)	1981	Confessing Jesus Christ in the Pacific
Western Samoa	1986	Challenges of the Eighties and the Mission
		of the Church
Vanuatu	1991	Proclaiming a Living Hope – Born into
		a Living Hope
Tahiti (French Polynesia)	1997	Reaffirming God, the Hope of Fenua
Raratonga (Cook Islands)	2002	Holy Spirit, Weave us Together in Your Peace

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