World Council of Methodist Churches
The World Council of Methodist Churches is a Church fellowship founded in 1881 in the Methodist tradition that includes most of the churches that can be traced back to John Wesley . The organization, based in Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, was founded in 1881.
The World Council of Methodist Churches includes 80 Methodist churches in 138 countries, which represent a total of around 40 million members, making Methodism one of the world's largest evangelical denominations.
Affiliated to the World Council are the World Fellowship of Methodist and Uniting Churches, the Oxford Institute for Methodist Theological Studies, the World Methodist Historical Society, World Federation of Methodist and Uniting Church Women and the General Commission on Archives and History.
organization
The highest organ is the World Methodist Conference, which takes place every five years. After 2006 in Seoul and 2011 in Durban , Houston was chosen as the venue in 2016 . In 2011 the Brazilian Bishop Paulo de Tarso Oliveira Lockmann became President of the World Council.
activity
The World Council is in ecumenical dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church , the Anglican Church Fellowship , the Lutheran World Federation and the Reformed World Federation . He is working on an ecumenical dialogue with the Orthodox churches and the Pentecostal churches .
The World Council has awarded the Methodist Peace Prize , the world's highest Methodist award , since 1977 .
Member churches (selection)
- African Methodist Episcopal Church
- African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
- Church of North India
- Church of Pakistan
- Church of South India
- Equmeniakyrkan (Sweden)
- Methodist Church
- Church of the Nazarene
- Methodist Church in Kenya
- Methodist Church in the Caribbean and Americas
- Methodist Church of Great Britain
- Methodist Church Nigeria
- Spanish Evangelical Church
- United Church of Canada
- Uniting Church in Australia
- United Protestant Church of Belgium
- Wesleyan Church of Tonga
literature
- Linda Greene: World Methodist Council. Handbook of Information 2002-2006. Biltmore Press, Asheville (NC) 2002
Web links
- Official website (English)
- World Methodist Evangelism (English)
- World Methodist Evangelism Institute (English)
Footnotes
- ^ Member Churches . Worldmethodistcouncil.org. Retrieved December 17, 2018.