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Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist Judicatories

International Council of Unitarians and Universalists Member Groups

Australia and New Zealand Unitarian Universalist Association (ANZUUA)
ANZUUA was established in 1974 to succeed the Australian Assembly of Unitarian and Liberal Christian Churches. The three Australian churches (Adelaide, Sydney, and Melbourne) were founded in the 1850s and the Aukland church in New Zealand was founded in 1897. Fellowships in Blenheim, Nelson, Wellington and Christchurch, New Zealand, and in Brisbane and Perth, Australia, have been formed more recently. Total membership is approximately five hundred people. #

Canadian Unitarian Council/Conseil Unitarien du Canada (CUC)
The CUC is an organization of Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist (UU) member congregations and individual members acting to enhance, nurture, and promote Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist religion in Canada. The CUC provides tangible support for religious exploration, spiritual growth, and social responsibility. %

Deutscher Unitarier Religionsgemeinschaft (German Unitarians)
The Fellowship descends from the 'Free Protestants' founded in 1876 and legally changed its name in 1950. It is deliberately a lay-led movement which tends toward scientific and philosophical humanism, while acknowledging other faith traditions. *

European Unitarian Universalists (EUU)
The EUU, founded in 1981, is a support network and community for Unitarian Universalists in Europe. About half of the over two hundred EUU members belong to local lay led fellowships, which share resources and programs, including religious education. *

General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches (UK)
The British GA is made up of nearly two hundred congregations in England, Scotland, and Wales. It also has an historic link with other related groups such as the Non Subscribing Presbyterian Church in Ireland.

Ijo Isokan Gbogbo Eda (Unitarian Brotherhood Church of Nigeria)
The Unitarian Brotherhood Church was founded by a group of liberal religious people of different denominations in 1919. There are currently two congregations in Lagos. *

Indonesian Global Church of God (Unitarian)
Founded in 2000, there are pproximately 200 people in 3 main congregations and 5 satellite congregations.

The Religious Society of Czech Unitarians
Reverend Norbert Capek brought Unitarianism to Prague after WWI and created a thriving church there. Ultimately he became a martyr, dying in a Nazi concentration camp in 1942. Many UU congregations remember Dr. Capek as the originator of the Flower Communion Service. There are currently 4 Unitarian churches and fellowships in the Czech Republic.

Society Unitaria Universalista de Espana / UU Society of Spain
Founded in 2000, the UU Society of Spain consists of two congregations and approximately fifty-five people. *

South Africa National Assembly of Unitarians
The 100 members participate in 4 congregations. The Cape Town Church meets weekly on Sunday mornings. The Congregation in Durban gathers twice per month and the congregaitons in Johannesburg and Somerset West hold one worship service per month.

Unitarian Church of Denmark
Founded in 1900, the church's beautiful building was erected in 1927, and in part donated by Nina Grieg, composer Edvard Grieg's widow. The church operates as a fellowship with lay leadership. *

Unitarian Church in Hungary
The thirty-three Unitarian churches and fellowships in Hungary share the same 16th century roots as the Unitarian Church of Romania.

The Unitarian Church in Poland
The Unitarian Church of Poland traces its roots to the followers of Faustus Socinus (the Polish Brethren) during the 16th century. The Unitarian Church of Poland consists of two congregations and two lay led fellowships. *

Unitarian Church of Transylvania
The Unitarians of Transylvania trace their roots back to the Diet of Torda which in 1585 declared religious toleration. Today, 80,000 ethnically Hungarian Unitarians worship in more than 125 churches.

The Unitarian Union of Northeast India (UUNEI)
The Unitarians of the Khasi and Jainita Hills in the provinces of Meghalaya and Assam honor Hajjom Kissor Singh as their founder in 1887. More than thirty-five congregations and fellowships serve the nine thousand members of the UUNEI.

Unitarian Universalist Association of Sri Lanka
There are approximately twenty-five members of the multi-ethnic Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) of Sri Lanka. *

Unitarian Universalist Christians of Pakistan
There are approximately one hundred Unitarian Universalist Christians in Pakistan led by Inderias Dominic Bhatti who discovered UUism in 1991. *

The Unitarian Universalist Church of the Philippines (UUCP)
Reverend Toribio S. Quimada founded the Universalist Church of the Philippines in 1954. In 1988 this church became a member congregation of the UUA. Today the UUCP consists of 2000 members and twenty-five congregations.

Unitarian Universalist Society of Finland
The twenty-two members of the UU Society of Finland meet once a month in Helsinki. *

International Council of Unitarians and Universalists Emerging Groups

Assemblée des chrétiens unitariens du Burundi (ACUB)
A Unitarian Church meeting bimonthly in Bujumbura, Burnundi.

Assemblée des chrétiens unitariens du Congo (ACUC)
A Unitarian Church meeting in Congo (Brazzaville)

Assemblee Fraternelle des Chretiens Unitariens (AFCU)
The Unitarian Christian Church of France.

Congregazione Italiana Cristiana Unitariana (CICU)
The Unitarian Christian Church of Italy.

Kenyan Unitarian Universalist Council
Includes congregations in: Nairobi, Tena, Ruai and 5 congregaitons in Northern Kisii Province

Unitarian Universalist Church of Cuba and the UU Religious Society of Cuba
Over one hundred Cuban UUs meet in more than a dozen congregational groups.

Unitarian Universalist Council of Kenya (UUCK)
The UUCK consists of approximately 30 congregations in the Southern Kisii province of Kenya.

Unitarios Universalistas de Mexico
A small group of Spanish-speaking UUs living in Mexico DF and Cuernevaca. *

Worldwide Unitarian/Universalist Groups Not Affiliated with the International Council of Unitarian Universalists

Bét Dávid Unitarian Church (Norway)
The Norwegian Unitarian Church

Berlin Unitarian Church (Germany)
An independent Unitarian Church in Berlin, Germany.

Sociedade Unitária de São Paulo (Brazil)
A developing Unitarian community in Brazil

Bolivia
A group has been organized in La Paz as part of the Federation Latinoamericana.

Croatia
A new and developing Unitarian community in Croatia.

Dojin Christian Church—Universalist (Japan)
A Japanese Universalist Church in Tokyo.

Free Unitarian Fellowship, Frankfurt-am-Main (Germany)
An independent Unitarian congregation in Frankfurt-am-Main.

Japan Free Christian Church - Unitarian (Japan)
A Japanese Unitarian Church in Tokyo.

Paz y Harmonia (Peace and Harmony) (Argentina)
A group is meeting in Ushuaia, Argentina where people from different traditions exchange ideas and worship together in a new Meditation Center. *

Spiritual Seekers Society (Hong Kong)
Spiritual Seekers Society is the first Unitarian Universalist society in Hong Kong. They are translating UU materials into Chinese language and they meet biweekly on Fridays. *

Tokyo Unitarian Fellowship (Japan)
An English-speaking Unitarian gathering in Tokyo.

Unitarian Universalists of Puerto Rico
A UU congregation meeting in San Juan, PR.

Unitarian Universalists of Singapore
UU Singapore members are a diverse group of people; local Singaporeans, permanent residents (PR), expats and visitors of different nationalities, ethnicities, belief systems and social backgrounds.

# from the ANZUUA website
% from the CUC website
* from the ICUU website

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Last updated on Friday, April 25, 2008.