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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 World Communion of Reformed Churches ( WCRC) is the largest association of Reformed ( Calvinist) churches in the world. It has 230 member denominations in 108 countries, together claiming an estimated 80 million people, [ 1] thus being the fourth-largest Christian communion in the world after the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church ...
A communion token with the word ADMISSIBLE, used by the Huguenot refugee community in Berlin. A communion token is a metal token issued to members of Reformed churches in order to provide them entrance to the Lord's Supper. There were many types issued in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries, but they were largely superseded by communion cards.
The Consultation on Church Union ( COCU) was an effort towards church unity in the United States, that began in 1962 and in 2002 became the Churches Uniting in Christ. It was a significant part of the Christian movement towards ecumenism. This effort can be seen in the context of the worldwide ecumenical attitude that was manifested in the 1948 ...
Icon depicting the Emperor Constantine (centre), accompanied by the bishops of the First Council of Nicaea (325), holding the Niceno–Constantinopolitan Creed of 381. In the history of Christianity, the first seven ecumenical councils include the following: the First Council of Nicaea in 325, the First Council of Constantinople in 381, the Council of Ephesus in 431, the Council of Chalcedon ...
Ecumenism, from the Greek word " oikoumene ", meaning "the whole inhabited world" (cf. Acts 17.6; Mt 24.14; Heb 2.5), is the promotion of cooperation and unity among Christians. The Union of Christendom is a traditional Catholic view of ecumenism; the view is that every non-Catholic Christian ecclesial community is destined to return to the ...
Grace Communion International (GCI), formerly named the Radio Church of God and the Worldwide Church of God (WCG), is a Christian denomination based in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. [ 1 ] According to the organization's website, the denomination has 30,000 members in 550 churches in 70 countries, [ 2 ] is structured in the episcopal model [ 2 ...
The Ecumenical Catholic Communion ( ECC) is an Independent Catholic church based within the United States. Its members understand themselves as following the Catholic tradition without being in communion with the Bishop of Rome. The ECC is a confederation of independent communities based in the United States and Europe. [ 1]