Covenanted Churches in Wales

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} A covenant was signed in 1975 between the Church in Wales, the Methodist Church of Great Britain, the Presbyterian Church of Wales (PCW), the United Reformed Church (URC) and some covenanted Baptist churches.<ref name="cytun">{{cite web|title=The Covenanted Churches in Wales|url=http://www.cytun.org.uk/covenantedchurches.html|website=www.cytun.org.uk|publisher=Cytun - Eglwysi Ynghyd yng Nghymru {{!}} Churches Together in Wales|accessdate=28 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170117203617/http://www.cytun.org.uk/covenantedchurches.html|archive-date=17 January 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> These '''Covenanted Churches''' work together on issues of faith and worship and are pledged to ever-closer ecumenical cooperation. The Commission of the Covenanted Churches is committed to the "development of new ecumenical congregations and churches", and the "preparation of agreed liturgies for communion and baptism".<ref>{{cite web|title=Covenanted Churches in Wales|url=http://www.methodist.org.uk/who-we-are/relationships-with-other-denominations/ecumenism-in-britain-and-ireland/walescymru/covenanted-churches-in-wales|website=www.methodist.org.uk|publisher=The Methodist Church|accessdate=28 March 2017|language=en}}</ref> Proposals in the early 2000s for the creation of an "Ecumenical Bishop" were rejected by the smaller denominations. The Covenanted Churches are also members of Cytûn.<ref name="cytun" />

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==External links== *[https://www.oikoumene.org/en/member-churches/europe/united-kingdom/covenanted-churches-within-cytun Covenanted Churches within Cytun] – World Council of Churches website

Category:Protestantism in Wales Category:Church in Wales