WCC NEWS: WCC central committee will convene in Geneva in June

The World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee has agreed to convene a central committee meeting 15-18 June to finalize preparations for the WCC 11th Assembly and complete our work together in fellowship. Photo: Albin Hillert/WCC 17 February 2022 The meeting will be held in-person in Geneva, and the search committee will present its report to the central committee. The WCC executive committee will gather on 14 June, the day before the central committee, and directly after the meeting the assembly leadership will meet 20-21 June to prepare for the assembly in Karlsruhe 31 August to 8 September 2022. The WCC central committee is elected by the assembly from among its delegates and serves as the chief governing body of the WCC, responsible for carrying out the policies adopted by the assembly, supervising WCC programmes and adopting the budget of the council. Since the WCC 10th Assembly in Busan in 2013, the WCC central committee has met in 2014 in Geneva, 2016 in Trondheim, and 2018 in Geneva, when the governing body celebrated the WCC’s 70th anniversary and the ecumenical pilgrimage of Pope Francis. In 2020, the WCC central committee meeting was postponed, and held in 2021 in June on video conference, then again on video conference in February 2022.   WCC central committee meeting 2022 Learn more about the WCC 11th Assembly See more

The World Council of Churches promotes Christian unity in faith, witness and service for a just and peaceful world. An ecumenical fellowship of churches founded in 1948, today the WCC brings together 349 Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican and other churches representing more than 550 million Christians in over 120 countries, and works cooperatively with the Roman Catholic Church. The WCC acting general secretary is Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca, from the Orthodox Church in Romania. Media contact: +41 79 507 6363; www.oikoumene.org/press Our visiting address is: World Council of Churches 150 route de Ferney Geneve 2 1211 Switzerland