Geneva - Ecumenical Center

(Local Name: Centre Ecumenique) A little way along Geneva's old road to Ferney is the Centre Ecumenique (Ecumenical Centre), Headquarters of the World Council of Churches, the Lutheran World Federation, the Reformed World Federation and other non-Catholic associations. The World Council of Churches, first discussed at the Edinburgh World Missionary Conference in 1910 and founded in its present form at Amsterdam in 1948, is composed of more than 220 Protestant, Orthodox, Old Catholic and Anglican churches and maintains contacts with other Christian denominations, (in particular with the Roman Catholic Church; Papal visits 1969 by Pope Paul VI, 1984 by John-Paul II).