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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 ...
Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry (BEM), also known as the Lima Document, is a Christian ecumenical document adopted by members of the World Council of Churches in Lima in January 1982. The document attempted to express the convergences that had been found over the years. It was sent to all member churches and six volumes of responses compiled.
The Joint Working Group between the Roman Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches (JWG) is an ecumenical organization working to improve ties between the Catholic Church and its separate brethren, mainly consisting of Eastern Orthodox and Protestant Christians.
The commission has 120 members, including representation of churches who are not members of the World Council of Churches, [1] among them the Roman Catholic Church, who joined in 1968. Members are men and women from around the world - pastors, laypeople, academics, and church leaders nominated by their churches.
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 .
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The Lima Liturgy is a Christian ecumenical Eucharistic liturgy. It was written for the 1982 Plenary Session of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Lima, Peru and reflects the theological convergences of the meeting's Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry (BEM) document as expressed in liturgy.
The proposal is not without controversy. Some Orthodox Christians tend not to look favorably upon the roughly one-in-five occurrence of Easter on or before the first day of Passover in the Aleppo method because, if Easter is not the Sunday after Passover, there is a conflict with the Gospels [11] (despite the Orthodox practice often not having Easter on the Sunday after the first day of ...