Society for Ecumenical Studies: Links to Communities

Ecumenical Studies with Religious Communities



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Bose, Ecumenical Monastery
The setting near Perugia in Italy for the conference on the Holy Spirit and Ecumenism, organised by the Cardinal Suenens Program in Theology and Church Life.

Centro Pro Unione - The Society of the Atonement in Rome
Franciscan friars and sisters consecrated to Christian unity. Website of their ecumenical library, study and conference centre in the Piazza Navona

Chemin Neuf Community
A Catholic community of the renewal, 'with an ecumenical vocation', and interchurch membership and dedicated to the study and life of unity.

Chevetogne - The Monks of Unity
The Latin and Byzantine rite Benedictine monastery in Belgium, home of the Monks of Unity, publishers of the ecumenical review, Irénikon.

Communauté du Chemin Neuf
An international community founded in Lyon in 1973 to work for unity through the renewal movement.
It runs the Centre Unité Chrétienne.

Corrymeela Community
30 years of Catholic and Protestant peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland

Focolare
The international movement for unity in Church and Society founded by Chiara Lubich

Grandchamp Community
The famous Reformed Church community in Switzerland, strongly associated with the life and vision of Abbé Paul Couturier and to this day influential in the ecumenical movement.

International Ecumenical Fellowship
From Poland to Spain, study, spirituality, conferences, friendship: 'Living today, the Church of tomorrow'

Iona Community
The ecumenical modern-day community living and singing the gospel in an ancient Abbey in Scotland

World Community for Christian Meditation
Ecumenical Spirituality Centre, continuing the work of John Main and Laurence Freeman