Congregationalism is not limited only to organization of Christian congregations ; the principles of congregationalism have been inherited by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Canadian Unitarian Council.

Holland, minister of the Ottawa church, in 1898, Samuel A. Eliot, President of the American Unitarian Association in 1908, Charles Huntingdon Pennoyer, minister of the Halifax Universalist Church in 1909, and Horace Westwood, a Unitarian minister in Winnipeg in 1913.

In 1961 there were three Universalist churches with 68 members, and three Icelandic and eleven English-speaking Unitarian churches with 3, 476 members, and in addition 22 Unitarian fellowships with 773 members.

The plan was approved 8 to 1, with the understanding that “ The Council will function within the framework of the continental Unitarian Universalist Association .”

Up until July 2002, almost all member congregations of the CUC were also members of the Unitarian Universalist Association ( UUA ).

The Canadian Unitarian Universalist youth of the day disapproved of this change in relationship.

While the name of the organization is the Canadian Unitarian Council, the CUC includes congregations with Unitarian, Universalist, Unitarian Universalist and Universalist Unitarian in their names.

* Unitarian Universalist Congregations in Canada

Category: Unitarian Universalist organizations

The Initial Declaration was signed by 143 respected leaders from all of the world's major faiths, including Baha ' i Faith, Brahmanism, Brahma Kumaris, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Indigenous, Interfaith, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Native American, Neo-Pagan, Sikhism, Taoism, Theosophist, Unitarian Universalist and Zoroastrian.

For the most part, religious traditions in the world reserve marriage to heterosexual unions, but there are exceptions including certain Buddhist and Hindu traditions, Unitarian Universalist, Metropolitan Community Church and some Anglican dioceses and some Quaker, United Church of Canada and Reform Jewish congregations .< ref >" World Religions and Same Sex Marriage ", Marriage Law Project, Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, July 2002 revision

The original initiative for its establishment was contained in a resolution of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches of the United Kingdom in 1987.

* General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, United Kingdom & Ireland, 6, 000 members.

* The Council of Unitarian Churches in India, which includes the Khasi Unitarian Union, 9, 000 members, and the Unitarian Christian Church of Madras, 225 members.

* Ulster Christian Unitarian Fellowship

* Christian Unitarian Church of Argentina -- Buenos Aires, Argentina

William Howard Taft, a Unitarian, is noted to have said in a letter to a friend, " I am interested in the spread of Christian civilization, but to go into a dogmatic discussion of creed I will not do whether I am defeated or not.

Both of these predecessor organizations began as Christian Unitarian and Christian Universalist denominations ; but modern Unitarian Universalists define themselves as non-creedal, and therefore they are not limited to Christian beliefs or affinities, but may also draw wisdom from other religions and philosophies as well, such as Humanism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Earth-centered spirituality, among others, or different combinations of them.

As of 2006, fewer than about 20 % of Unitarian Universalists identified themselves as Christian.

Unitarian Universalism was formed from the merger in 1961 of two historically Christian denominations, the Universalist Church of America and the American Unitarian Association, both based in the United States.

Unitarian Universalist congregations and fellowships tend to retain some Christian traditions, such as Sunday worship with a sermon and the singing of hymns.

Unitarian congregations in Britain today meet under the auspices of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.

Many Unitarian Universalists consider themselves humanists, while others hold to Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, natural theist, atheist, agnostic, absurdist, pantheist, pagan, Taoist, and other beliefs.

In several surveys, Unitarian Universalists in the United States most often identified themselves as humanists, while smaller numbers identified themselves as earth-centered, agnostic, theistic, atheistic, Buddhist, Christian, or pagan.

A Unitarian Universalist approach to the Christian Bible and other sacred works is given in Our Unitarian Universalist Faith: Frequently Asked Questions, published by the UUA:

* Free Unitarian Fellowship, Frankfurt-am-Main ( Germany )

The Church of the Larger Fellowship ( CLF ) is a member church of the Unitarian Universalist Association providing denominational services to persons unable to attend a physical congregation because of distance or mobility, or who wish to belong to a congregation other than their local congregation.

* The Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship ( UUCF ) is an association of Unitarian Universalists who define themselves as Christians.

Among them, Unitarian Ministries International, the Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship ( UUCF, an affiliate of the UUA ), the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches ( GAUFCC ) of the United Kingdom, and the Unitarian Christian Association ( UCA, an affiliate of the GAUFCC ).

Briarcliff, Ossining, Croton Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.

* Unitarian Universalist Peace Fellowship

* Paul Beattie ( minister, All Souls Unitarian Church ; president, Fellowship of Religious Humanism )

The school has also maintained close relationships with the Unitarian Universalist Association, the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, as well as other denominations.

** Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship

Doorway of the Church of the Larger Fellowship on Joy Place behind the Unitarian Universalist Association Headquarters in Boston

The Church of the Larger Fellowship ( CLF ) provides a ministry to isolated Unitarian Universalists ( UUs ).

The Bismarck-Mandan Unitarian Universalist Fellowship was awarded the 2005 Pride Award.

The Unitarian Universalist Buddhist Fellowship ( UUBF ) is a " Related Organization " ( formerly an " Independent Affiliate ") to the Unitarian Universalist Association ( UUA ).

The Unitarian Service Committee of Canada, founded in 1945, was receiving considerable attention both in city newspapers and on television, so much so that the word “ Unitarian ” became a household world, though its meaning was not that widely known.

The International Council of Unitarians and Universalists ( ICUU ) is an umbrella organization founded in 1995 bringing together many Unitarians, Universalists and Unitarian Universalists.

* Unitarian Universalist Church of the Philippines founded 1954, 2000 members.

Once laity and clergy relaxed their vehement opposition to the Doctrine of the Trinity Act 1813 ( sometimes called the Trinitarian Act 1812 and also variously known as the Trinity Act, Unitarian Relief Act and Unitarian Toleration Bill ) that amended the Blasphemy Act 1697 in respect of its Trinitarian provisions, the British and Foreign Unitarian Association was founded in 1825.

The American Unitarian Association was founded as a separate denomination in 1825.

Other Unitarian Christian groups are affiliated with the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists ( ICUU ), founded in 1995.

The ICUU includes small " Associate groups ", including Congregazione Italiana Cristiano Unitariana, Turin ( founded in 2004 ) and the Bét Dávid Unitarian Association, Oslo ( founded 2005 ).

The Unitarian Christian Association ( UCA, UK ) was founded 1991 by Rev.

The Sydney Unitarian Church, was founded 1850, under a Reverend Stanley and was a vigorous denomination during the 19th Century.

The Unitarian movement in South Africa was founded in 1867 by the Reverend Dawid Faure, member of a well-known Cape family.

* April 17 – The first avowedly Unitarian congregation, Essex Street Chapel, is founded in London by Theophilus Lindsey.

He preached about the unity of God, made early translations of Vedic scriptures into English, co-founded the Calcutta Unitarian Society, founded the Brahmo Samaj, and campaigned against sati.

By 1688, matters had calmed down enough that a new chapel, Christ Church, was founded in Dampiet Street, the congregation of which became Unitarian in 1815.

For 100 years of its history, Phillips Academy shared its campus with the Andover Theological Seminary, which was founded on Phillips Hill in 1807 by orthodox Calvinists who had fled Harvard College after it appointed a liberal Unitarian theologian to a professorship of divinity.

In 1977, she founded the Jubilee Singers, a choir at All Souls Church, Unitarian in Washington, DC .< ref >

* American Unitarian Conference was founded in 2000 by several Unitarian Universalists who felt that the Unitarian Universalist Association had become too liberal, both theologically and politically