During a moving ceremony on 27 January, 32 students graduating from the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Institute at Bossey reflected on the profound and unique experience that will unite them as they embark on their journeys back to different parts of the world.
An international conference organized by the World Council of Churches (WCC) has marked the beginning of a year of activities commemorating the 1700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea and other significant anniversaries in 2025.
During an international conference at the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Institute at Bossey focused on the impact of the Council of Nicaea, Rev. Dr Kathleen M. Griffin presented her research on Constantine’s political motivations and its implications for historical and modern religious thought.
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Apply for the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute (GETI), which will bring together about 100 students ages 21-35 from across the world in Wadi el Natrun, near Alexandria, Egypt, 12-29 October 2025.
Applications remain open for the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute, which will bring together about 100 students ages 21-35 from across the world in Wadi el Natrun, near Alexandria, Egypt, 12-29 October 2025.
As a new academic year is officially underway, Bossey faculty and staff, together with 32 students from around the world, gathered for an opening prayer service and orientation session on 11 September, embarking on what will be an intense period of ecumenical community building, academic learning, and discovering profound connectivity between them.
Eleven students from Africa, Asia, and Europe enhanced their English-speaking skills with an intensive summer course at the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey. They will now pursue further academic studies at the institute.
Students who complete the World Council of Churches’ (WCC) Global Ecumenical Theological Institute will now receive academic credits and a certificate from the University of Geneva—a new addition to the institute, which has been offering its courses for more than a decade.
The Asian Ecumenical Institute, a month-long ecumenical formation training organised by the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA) in collaboration with the World Council of Churches (WCC), concluded with a valedictory ceremony.
Prof. Dr Amos Nascimento, from the United Methodist Church, serves on the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission on Ecumenical Education and Formation. In a video interview, he reflects deeply on how aspiring and dreaming toward unity keeps us reaching for the reality of unity.
Via a video interview, Dr Sara Gehlin, from the Church of Sweden and the University College Stockholm, highlights what’s on the horizon, ecumenically speaking, for 2025—and why it’s special for Sweden.
A team from the World Council of Churches (WCC) visited Egypt at the invitation of the Coptic Orthodox Church to plan for the 2025 World Conference on Faith and Order to take place at the Logos Papal Center at Wadi El Natrun, near Alexandria.
H.E. Metropolitan Dr George Coorilos, Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East, is a commissioner with the World Council of Churches Commission on Ecumenical Education and Formation. The commission met at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, in June.