WCC - On the international level, The Episcopal Church is a member of the World Council of Churches (WCC), making us a part of a network of 400 million Christians belonging to more than 340 churches and communions throughout the world. The World Council of Churches (WCC) is the broadest and most inclusive among the many organized expressions of the modern ecumenical movement, a movement whose goal is Christian unity.
The WCC brings together 349 churches, denominations and church fellowships in more than 110 countries and territories throughout the world, representing over 560 million Christians and including most of the world's Orthodox churches, scores of Anglican, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist and Reformed churches, as well as many United and Independent churches. While the bulk of the WCC's founding churches were European and North American, today most member churches are in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, the Middle East and the Pacific.
For its member churches, the WCC is a unique space: one in which they can reflect, speak, act, worship and work together, challenge and support each other, share and debate with each other.
As members of this fellowship, WCC member churches:
are called to the goal of visible unity in one faith and one eucharistic fellowship; promote their common witness in work for mission and evangelism; engage in Christian service by serving human need, breaking down barriers between people, seeking justice and peace, and upholding the integrity of creation; and foster renewal in unity, worship, mission and service.
The National Council of Churches
NCC - Nationally, The Episcopal Church is one of some thirty-six churches which make up the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA (NCCCUSA), representing 45 million Christians in more than 100,000 local congregations, working together toward the goal of Christian unity, peace, and justice as well as other areas such as Christian education and environmental awareness.
Statement of Faith
"The National Council of Churches is a community of Christian communions,
which, in response to the gospel as revealed in the Scriptures,
confess Jesus Christ, the incarnate Word of God, as Savior and Lord.
These communions covenant with one another
to manifest ever more fully the unity of the Church.
Relying upon the transforming power of the Holy Spirit,
the communions come together as the Council in common mission,
serving in all creation to the glory of God."
--from the Preamble to the NCC Constitution.
