List of UMC partnerships

Ecumenical: Partnerships

INTRODUCTION

The following lists contain the names of other Christian faith communions with which The United Methodist Church has formal, ecumenical relationships approved by the General Conference. It is appropriate for bishops and annual conferences to engage these faith communions and to reach out to them in order to improve and nurture relationships with their judicatory leaders, pastors and laity.

CONCORDAT CHURCHES

The Methodist Church of Great Britain
Methodist Church in the Caribbean and the Americas
The Methodist Church of Mexico
The Methodist Church of Puerto Rico

AFFILIATED AUTONOMOUS CHURCHES

Evangelical Methodist Church of Argentina
Evangelical Methodist Church in Bolivia
Evangelical Methodist Church of Costa Rica
Evangelical Methodist Church of Panama
Evangelical Methodist Church in the Philippines
Korean Methodist Church
Methodist Church in Brazil
Methodist Church of Chile
Methodist Church in Cuba
Methodist Church of Hong Kong
Methodist Church in India
Methodist Church of Indonesia
Methodist Church of Malaysia
Methodist Church of Peru
Methodist Church in the Republic of China
Methodist Church in Singapore
Methodist Church of the Union of Myanmar
Methodist Church of Uruguay

AFFILIATED UNITED CHURCHES

Church of Pakistan
Dominican Evangelical Church
Eglise Protestante Unie de Belgique
Evangelical United Church of Ecuador
United Church of Christ in the Philippines
The Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China
The United Church of Canada
The United Church in Japan (Kyodan)

FULL COMMUNION RELATIONSHIPS

The African Methodist Episcopal Church
The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
The African Union Methodist Protestant Church
The Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
The Uniting Church of Sweden/ Equmeniakyrkan
The Union American Methodist Episcopal Church
The Moravian Church, Northern and Southern Provinces

KNOWN ECUMENICAL PARTNER CHURCHES SPECIFIC TO EUROPEAN CENTRAL CONFERENCES

Churches with the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany/Kirchengemeinschaff
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sweden

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Church World Service
The World Council of Churches
The World Methodist Council
The Global Christian Forum
Religions for Peace International
The World Evangelical Fellowship
The Wesleyan Holiness Connection