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1995
Willem R "Wim" van der Zee, gen-sec Council of Churches, dies at 64
1994
Walter Arnold, Germ theologist (World council of Churches), dies at 64
1988
Bomb attack on office of South Africa Council of Churches
1985
Eugene Carson Blake, sec-gen World Council of Churches, dies at 78
1983
Tina Howe's "Painting Churches," premieres in New York City
1972
Philip Potter appointed Secretary-General of World council of Churches
1965
Pope Paul VI and Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054
1963
All Africa Conferences of Churches opens in Kampala Uganda
1960
Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches
1951
Frank Chikane, sec-gen of South Africa Council of Churches
1948
World Council of Churches forms under W Fisherman It Hooft)
1948
World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries
1943
Dutch churches protest at Seyss-Inquart against persecution of Jews
1942
RC churches protest, Dutch bishops stand against spread of Judaism
1940
Protestant churches protest against dismissal of Jew civil servants
1936
Amsterdam's Calvinist Churches reject nazism
1930
Willem R "Wim" van der Zee, secretary of Council of Churches
1930
David Staple, joint President, Council of Churches for British and Ireland
1921
Philip A. Potter, Dominica sec-gen World council of Churches
1920
Iron monument unveiled at Stone churches, Flanders
1914
World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through Churches forms
1906
Eugene Carson Blake, U.S. sec-gen of World council of Churches, 1966-72
1903
John Piper, British writer, US Churches in WW I, /official war painter
842
Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ends as a council in Constantinople formally reinstated the veneration of icons in the churches
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