Biographies

(please click to the names in the list below)

WCC presidents

: The WCC presidents after their election at the 9th Assembly in Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2006 (l. to r.): Mr John Taroanui Doom, Rev. Dr Bernice Powell Jackson, Dr Mary Tanner, Rev. Prof. Dr Simon Dossou, Archbishop Dr Anastasios of Tirana and All Albania, Rev. Dr Soritua Nababan, and Rev. Dr Ofelia Ortega.

Archbishop Dr Anastasios of Tirana and All Albania, Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania
Mr John Taroanui Doom, Maohi Protestant Church (French Polynesia)
Rev. Dr Simon Dossou, Methodist Church in Benin
Rev. Dr Soritua Nababan, Protestant Christian Batak Church (Indonesia)
Rev. Dr Ofelia Ortega, Presbyterian-Reformed Church in Cuba
Patriarch Abune Paulos, Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
Rev. Dr Bernice Powell Jackson, United Church of Christ (USA)
Dr Mary Tanner, Church of England

: The WCC officers at the executive committee meeting in Bossey, 2006. From left: Metropolitan Prof. Dr Gennadios of Sassima (Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople), Rev. Dr Walter Altmann (Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil), Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia (Methodist Church in Kenya), and Rev. Dr Margaretha M. Hendriks-Ririmasse (Protestant Church in the Moluccas; Indonesia)

Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, WCC general secretary
Rev. Dr Walter Altmann, moderator of the WCC Central Committee
Metropolitan Prof. Dr Gennadios of Sassima (Limouris), vice moderator of the WCC Central Committee
Rev. Dr Margaretha Hendriks-Ririmasse, vice moderator of the WCC Central Committee