List of UMC 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