World Council of Churches (WCC)

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The World Council of Churches is a international Christian ecumenical organization which includes numerous Orthodox and Protestant denominations that was founded in 1937. The headquarters for the World Council of Churches is located in Geneva, Switzerland.

The World Council of Churches brings together more than 340 churches, denominations and church fellowships in close to 150 countries and territories throughout the world, representing some 590 million Christians and including most of the world's Orthodox churches, scores of denominations from such historic traditions of the Protestant Reformation as Anglican, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist and Reformed, as well as many united and independent churches. While the bulk of the WCC's founding churches were European and North American, today most are in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, the Middle East and the Pacific.

As members of this fellowship, World Council of Churches member churches: are called to the goal of visible unity in one faith and one eucharistic fellowship; promote their common witness in work for mission and evangelism; engage in Christian service by serving human need, breaking down barriers between people, seeking justice and peace, and upholding the integrity of creation; and foster renewal in unity, worship, mission and service.

The World Council of Churches is a fellowship of churches which confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour according to the scriptures, and therefore seek to fulfill together their common calling to the glory of the one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It is a community of churches on the way to visible unity in one faith and one eucharistic fellowship, expressed in worship and in common life in Christ. It seeks to advance towards this unity, as Jesus prayed for his followers, "so that the world may believe" (John 17:21).

• African Methodist Episcopal Church
• African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
• American Baptist Churches in the USA
• Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
• Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
• Church of the Brethren
• Episcopal Church
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
• Moravian Church in North America
• National Baptist Convention of America
• National Baptist Convention, USA
• Orthodox Church in America
• Presbyterian Church U.S.A.
• Progressive National Baptist Convention
• Reformed Church in America
• United Church of Christ
• United Methodist Church