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Pages in category "Members of the World Council of Churches" The following 189 pages are in this category, out of 189 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a worldwide Christian inter-church organization founded in 1948 to work for the cause of ecumenism. [1] Its full members today include the Assyrian Church of the East, most jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodox Church [2] (including the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople), [3] the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Union of Utrecht, the Lutheran World ...
Christoph Blocher (2009), [56] former member of Federal Council and former CEO of EMS Group; Doris Leuthard (2011), [10] former member of Federal Council; Christa Markwalder (2016), [16] president of the National Council and the Federal Assembly; Rolf Schweiger (2011) [40] Martin Vetterli (2016), [16] president, NSF
The following is a list of the major existing intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). For a more complete listing, see the Yearbook of International Organizations , [ 1 ] which includes 25,000 international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), excluding for-profit enterprises, about 5,000 IGOs, and lists dormant and dead organizations as ...
World Conferences were originally known as "General Conferences." The first General Conference of the church, then known as the Church of Christ, was held on June 9, 1830—only two months after its organization. Convened in Fayette, New York, it was presided over by Joseph Smith. The conference included a gathering of the 27 members of the church.
The official repository of Mennonite World Conference is the Mennonite Church USA Archives. According to a census published by the association in 2022, it would have 107 member denominations in 59 countries, and 1,47 million baptized members in 10,300 churches.
The Disciples Ecumenical Consultative Council (DECC) a.k.a. Disciples of Christ World Communion is a worldwide council of member churches associated with the Disciples of Christ, including United and Uniting Churches which Disciples churches have joined. It is an associate member of the World Communion of Reformed Churches.
The highest organ of the World Methodist Council is the World Methodist Conference, which meets every five years. The next Conference, the 22nd, will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2024. [26] The 21st Conference was held in 2016 in Houston, Texas in the United States. The theme was "ONE".