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

In 1946 The Commission on the Work of the Churches of the British Unitarians recommended that “ the Assembly should interest itself in the formation of a Canadian Unitarian Association which many Unitarians there believe to be necessary .”

Some member groups have only a few hundred members ; while the largest, the Unitarian Universalist Association, has over 200, 000 members and is larger than all the other member groups put together.

The Unitarian Universalist Association ( UUA ) became particularly interested in the establishment of a council when it had to deal with an increasing number of applications for membership from congregations outside North America.

* Australian and New Zealand Unitarian Universalist Association ( ANZUUA ), 500 members.

* Unitarian Universalist Association, USA, 157, 920 members.

* Unitarian Universalist Association of Sri Lanka, 100 members.

Some regional groups that adhere to variants of the Humanist life stance, such as the humanist subgroup of the Unitarian Universalist Association, do not belong to the IHEU.

Until 2002, almost all member congregations of the Canadian Unitarian Council ( CUC ) were also members of the UUA and most services to CUC member congregations were provided by the UUA.

The UUA is headquartered at 25 Beacon Street on historic Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, the historical center of Unitarian Christianity in America.

The Unitarian Universalist Association ( UUA ) was formed in 1961, a consolidation of the American Unitarian Association, established in 1825, and the Universalist Church of America, established in 1866.

In the aftermath of their various historical circumstances, some of these churches became member congregations of the Congregational organization ( later the United Church of Christ ), others became Unitarian and eventually became part of the UUA.

The Unitarian Universalist Association ( UUA ) was also given corporate status in May 1961 under special acts of legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of New York.

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:

Politically conservative Unitarian Universalists point out that neither religious liberalism nor the Principles and Purposes of the UUA require liberal politics.

" The debate seems part and parcel of an attendant effort at increasing biblical literacy amongst Unitarian Universalists, including the publication of a book by the UUA's Beacon Press written by former UUA President John Buehrens.

The " borrowing " of religious rituals from other faith traditions by Unitarian Universalists was discussed at the UU General Assembly in 2001 during a seminar titled Cultural Appropriation: Reckless Borrowing or Appropriate Cultural Sharing by the Religious Education Dept, UUA.

* The Unitarian Universalist Association ( UUA ) of Congregations is the largest association of Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist congregations in the world, and the most well-known.

A few Unitarian and UU congregations in other countries, such as San Miguel de Allende ( Mexico ), Puerto Rico, Auckland ( New Zealand ), and a few others are also members of the UUA.

LRY was dissolved by the Unitarian Universalist Association, and its assets absorbed by the UUA.

The Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship ( UUCF, founded 1945 ) predates the consolidation of the American Unitarian Association ( AUA ) and Universalist Church of America ( UCA ) into the Unitarian Universalist Association ( UUA ) in 1961.

His grandfather, also called John Aikin ( 1713 – 1780 ), was a Unitarian scholar and theological tutor, closely associated with Warrington Academy.

Born into a privileged Unitarian family, Potter, along with her younger brother, Walter Bertram ( 1872 – 1918 ), grew up with few friends outside her large extended family.

However, for Young Religious Unitarian Universalists ( YRUU ) programming in Canada, the " Central " and " Eastern " regions are combined to form a youth region known as " QuOM " ( Quebec, Ontario and the Maritimes ), giving the youth only three regions for their activities.

* John Disney ( Unitarian ), English writer

* First Unitarian Church of Nigeria and Ijo Isokan Gbogbo Eda ( Unitarian Brotherhood Church ), Nigeria

* Kosciol Unitarianski ( Unitarian Church in Poland ), 80 attendees and friends.

Jaynes was born in West Newton, Massachusetts, son of Julian Clifford Jaynes ( 1854 – 1922 ), a Unitarian minister, and Clara Bullard Jaynes ( 1884-1980 ).

#*:" Like many others of his time ( he died just one year after the founding of institutional Unitarianism in America ), Jefferson was a Unitarian in theology, though not in church membership.

In 1961, the American Unitarian Association ( AUA ) was consolidated with the Universalist Church of America ( UCA ), thus forming the Unitarian Universalist Association.

Deliberately without an official creed or dogma ( per the principle of freedom of thought ), many Unitarian Universalists make use of the Principles and Purposes as a definition of what UUs believe.

Many Unitarian Universalist churches celebrate observances associated with other religious traditions, including Buddhist-style meditation groups, Jewish Seder, Yom Kipur and Passover dinners, iftaar meals ( marking the breaking of Ramadan fast for Muslims ), and Christmas Eve / Winter Solstice services.

John Haynes Holmes, a Unitarian minister and social activist at The Community Church of New York — Unitarian Universalist was among the founders of both the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) in 1909 and the American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ), chairing the latter for a time.

The Unitarian Church in Transylvania was first recognized by the Edict of Torda, issued by the Transylvanian Diet under Prince John II Sigismund Zápolya ( January 1568 ), and was first led by Ferenc Dávid ( a former Calvinist bishop, who had begun preaching the new doctrine in 1566 ).

The word Unitarian had been circulating in private letters in England, in reference to imported copies of such publications as the Library of the Polish Brethren who are called Unitarians ( 1665 ), Henry Hedworth was the first to use the word " Unitarian " in print in English ( 1673 ), and the word first appears in a title in Stephen Nye's A brief history of the Unitarians, called also Socinians ( 1687 ).