[World Council of Churches] At its first meeting after being reconstituted following the 10th Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the 49-member Faith and Order Commission has elected five vice-moderators to assist the commission’s moderator, British theologian Rev. Dr Susan Durber of the United Reformed Church in the United Kingdom. Durber was elected moderator of Faith and Order by the WCC Central Committee in 2014.

The vice-moderators, who serve until the next WCC assembly in 2020, are Metropolitan Professor Dr Gennadios of Sassima from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, Rev. Dr Professor William Henn of the Roman Catholic Church, Rev. Dr Morag Logan of the Uniting Church of Australia, Rev. Dr Makhosazana K. Nzimande of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa and Rev. Dr Hermen Shastri of the Methodist Church in Malaysia.

Metropolitan Gennadios, one of the four officers of the WCC, also serves as vice-moderator of the Council’s Central Committee and Executive Committee.

The Faith and Order Commission is meeting from 17 to 24 June at Caraiman Monastery in Romania. Members have been drawn from 33 churches on five continents, assisted by consultants from partner organizations world-wide. Participants are engaged in the tasks of discerning and planning the commission’s work on matters of Christian unity and ecumenical theology in the period from 2015 to 2020.

Read more on the WCC website.

The Revd Dr Makhosazana K. Nzimande of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa is a parish priest serving as rector of All Saints Ladysmith in South Africa. She formerly taught on the Arts faculty at the University of Zululand where she was a lecturer in the theological degree programme. Her academic specialization is in the study of Hebrew scripture. – From “Brief biographical profiles of Faith and Order leadership” (WCC)