National Council of Churches in the Philippines - Manila

The National Council of Churches in the Philippines, is the embodiment of more than six decades of the aspirations of non-Roman Catholic churches for unity and common Christian witness. The Council was founded during the First General Convention on November 7-9, 1963 at the Cathedral of St. Mary and St. John in Quezon City when seven churches bonded after decades of working together.The founding member churches of the NCCP are the Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches, the Iglesia Evangelica Metodista En Las Islas Filipina, the Iglesia Unida Ekyumenikal, the Iglesia Filipina Independiente, the Philippine Episcopal Church, the United Methodist Church, and the United Church of Christ in the Philippines. There were observers from the Lutheran Church in the Philippines, the Salvation Army and the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The first two churches later became members of the NCCP.