World Council of Churches
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The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a worldwide Christian inter-church organization founded in 1948. Its members today include the Assyrian Church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, most jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar, the Old Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, most mainline Protestant churches (such as the Lutheran, Mennonite, Methodist, Moravian and Reformed) and some evangelical Protestant churches (such as the Baptist and Pentecostal).
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See also
- John R. Mott
- John Romanides
- Joseph Oldham
- Nathan Soderblom
- Charles Henry Brent
- Christian ecumenism
- Conference of Secretaries of World Christian Communions
- Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians
- World Summit of Religious Leaders
- Programme to Combat Racism
- Authorship of the Bible
- List of the largest Protestant bodies
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