Churches Uniting in Christ ( CUIC ) is an ecumenical organization that brings together ten mainline American denominations ( including both predominantly white and predominantly black churches ), and was inaugurated on January 20, 2002 in Memphis, TN on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel.

This work began with a group of representatives who revisited the 1999 document " Call to Christian Commitment and Action to Combat Racism ," which is available on the current CUIC website.

According to their website, one of the reasons for transitioning from COCU to CUIC is so that member churches " stop ' consulting ' and start living their unity in Christ more fully.

Therefore, the coordinating council of CUIC created a consultation on race and ministry while also choosing to partner with the Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference, a social justice organization involved in African American faith communities.

The work culminated in a consultation on episkope in St. Louis in October 2006 involving the heads of communion of the members of CUIC.

At this consultation, the MRMRM document was met with resistance, and concern was raised in particular that CUIC was focusing to narrowly on reconciliation of ministries and " not taking seriously our commitment to working on those issues of systemic racism that remain at the heart of our continuing and separated life as churches here in the United States.

Neither body sent representatives to the CUIC plenary on January 11 – 14, 2008, though the AME Council of Bishops never voted to suspend membership officially.

The African Methodist Episcopal Church resumed its participation by the February 2010 plenary meeting, where CUIC moved to refocus on its eight marks of commitment and a shared concern for racial justice as a major dividing factor facing ecumenism.

The nine churches which inaugurated CUIC in 2002 were joined by the Moravian Church, Northern Province.

In 2007, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and the African Methodist Episcopal Church withdrew from CUIC.

As of 2012, CUIC no longer has physical offices, opting instead for a virtual office and storing the archives of both CUIC and COCU at Princeton Seminary's Henry Luce III Library.

Racism has been a primary focus of CUIC since 2002 ( and, indeed, a primary focus of COCU alongside other forms of exclusion and prejudice, such as sexism and ableism ).

After forty years of talks, COCU voted ( in 1999 ) to dissolve in 2002 and to reconstitute itself as Churches Uniting in Christ ( CUIC ).

At COCU's 18th plenary meeting in St. Louis, Missouri ( January 1999 ), CUIC was proposed as a new relationship among the nine member communions.

" This means that each member communion in CUIC agrees to abide by the eight Marks of Commitment, which are summarized as follows:

" Even before the absence of the AME and AMEZ churches at the January 2011 plenary, some in CUIC had noticed the lack of commitment to racial reconciliation.

The purpose of CUIC has always been unity ( as reflected in their current slogan, " reconciling the baptized, seeking unity with justice ").

According to Dan Krutz, former president of CUIC, " Overcoming racism has been a focal point of CUIC since its beginning ... Racism may be the biggest sin that divides churches.

Each member communion voted to join CUIC over the next few years.

The Coordinating Council of CUIC created three task forces: Ministry, Racial Justice, and Local and Regional Ecumenism.

Each task force represented an important part of early CUIC work.

CUIC released the seventh and final draft of the MRMRM document in June 2005.

In response to this, the remaining churches in CUIC decided in 2008 to suspend their work while they seek reconciliation with these churches.

This also meant eliminating the position of Director as well as the suspension of the work of the CUIC task forces.

Staccato Powell, an AMEZ pastor, preached at the 2011 CUIC plenary in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida as a part of these reconciliation efforts.

Combating racism has again become a priority of CUIC.

CUIC has approached this goal of unity in various ways throughout its history.

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Hippolytus of Rome ( d. 235 ) is commonly considered to be the earliest antipope, as he headed a separate group within the Church in Rome against Pope Callixtus I. Hippolytus was reconciled to Callixtus's second successor, Pope Pontian, and both he and Pontian are honoured as saints by the Roman Catholic Church with a shared feast day on 13 August.

It is during this period that Bishop Asser applied to him the unique title of " secundarius ", which may indicate a position akin to that of the Celtic tanist, a recognised successor closely associated with the reigning monarch.

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