Antwerp Council of Churches

The Antwerp Council of Churches

The Antwerp Council of Churches (Antwerpse Raad van Kerken) is a community of Churches, who confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour in accordance with Holy Scripture.
The Council seeks to realise her common vocation in honour of the One God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit: A vocation to respond to Our Lord's Prayer "That they all be one" in witness and in service.

The Council covers the whole of Greater Antwerp, the adjacent Voorkempen region, and Turnhout.

The Ecumenical Process for Reconciliation & Forgiveness has an active steering group in Flanders co-ordinated by Pax Christi, Antwerpen. They prepare the local Churches and Christians for the 1997 Conference of the Council of European Churches, to be held in Graz, Austria.

Members

Participating Churches and Groups include:

the Anglican Church of St. Boniface,
the Greek Orthodox Church of St. Mary Annunciation,
the Orthodox Church of St. George,
the RC Diocese of Antwerp with its Cathedral, deaneries, parishes and a number of its monastic communities,
5 parishes of the United Protestant Church of Belgium,
the German Evangelical Lutheran Church,
the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Antwerp,
the American Protestant Church,
the Salvation Army,
the Seamen's Missions of the Churches of Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden,
the German Seamen's Mission,
the RC Seamen's Mission Stella Maris,
the Missions to Seamen (Anglican),
the British and International Sailors' Society,
and the Faculty for Comparative Religion (FVG).

Moderamen 1997-1999