Commissions and Joint Consultative Bodies

Commissions, Joint Consultative Groups and Reference Groups of the World Council of Churches

WCC Commissions

Commission on Faith and Order

Moderator: Prof. Dr Stephanie Dietrich, Church of Norway
 

Commission on World Mission and Evangelism

Moderator: Rev. Michael Blair, United Church of Canada
 

Commission on Education and Ecumenical Formation

Moderator: Rev. Dr Meehyun Chung, Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea
Vice-moderator: Rev. Dr Teddy Chalwe Sakupapa, Uniting Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa
 

Commission of the Churches on International Affairs

Moderator: Dr Mathews George Chunakara, Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar
 

Young People in the Ecumenical Movement Commission

Moderator: Rev.Karen Erina Puimera, Protestant Church in Western Indonesia (GPIB)
 

Commission on Health and Healing

Moderator: V. Rev. Protopresbyter Dr  Stavros Kofinas, Ecumenical Patriarchate
 

Commission of the Churches on Climate Justice and Sustainable Development

Moderator: Archbishop Julio E. Murray, Anglican Church in the Central Region of America

 

Joint Consultative Groups

Joint Working Group between the WCC and the Roman Catholic Church

Co-moderators: 
H.E. Archbishop Dr Vicken Aykazian, Armenian Apostolic Church (Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin)
Most Reverend Thomas Edward Dowd, Roman Catholic Church
 

Joint Consultative Group between the WCC and Pentecostal Churches

Co-moderators: 
Rev. Dr Jennifer S. Leath, African Methodist Episcopal Church
Dr Jean-Daniel Plüss, Swiss Pentecostal Movement

 

WCC Reference Groups

Ecumenical Accompaniment in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) Reference Group

Co-moderators:
Bishop Ibrahim Azar, Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land
Ms Duduzile Claudia Mahlangu-Masango, South African Council of Churches
 

Ecumenical Diakonia Reference Group

Co-moderators:
Rev. Jorgen Thompsen, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark
Mrs Rebecca Teiko Sabah, Presbyterian Church of Ghana
 

Ecumenical Indigenous Peoples Network Reference Group

Moderator: Rev. Mari Valjakka, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
 

Gender Justice Reference Group

Co-moderators:
Mrs Thandi Soko-De Jeong, Protestant Church in the Netherlands
Mr Rastko Jovic, Serbian Orthodox Church
 

Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation Reference Group

Co-moderators:
Ms Kathryn M. Lohre, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 
Dr Elias Halabi, Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East
 

Overcoming Racism, Xenophobia, Casteism and all forms of Discrimination Reference Group

Co-moderators:
Ms Adele Halliday, United Church of Canada
Elder Dr Leatulagi Faalevao, Christian Congregational Church of American Samoa
 

Pilgrimage of Justice, Reconciliation and Unity Reference Group

Co-moderators:
Rt Rev. Philip Wright, Church in the Province of the West Indies
Rev. Karin van den Broeke, Protestant Church in the Netherlands
 


List with names of members of the Commissions and Joint Consultative Bodies