Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist (U/U) Global Headquarters and Churches

Argentina

Paz y Armonia (Peace and Harmony)
There is an emerging fellowship in Argentina that has flourished as a result of contact with Unitarian Universalists (UU). This group is located at the southernmost point of South America, on an island called Tierra del Fuego, or "Land of Fire." Although Argentina is known as being a traditional Christian country, many Argentineans are looking for an alternative answer for their spiritual needs. In 2002, Dr. Lilian Burlando founded the Center for Study and Meditation (Centro de Estudio y Meditacion) in Ushuaia where worship, meditation and other activities take place. The fellowship meets twice a month, the second and last Sunday of each month from 11 a.m. to noon and the first Wednesday of each month from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Besides worship meetings (here called meditation) the Center promotes other activities such as frequent open meetings for people going through the bereavement process. Also workshops focusing on topics such as "Love and Sexuality," "Analyzing Our Own Values and Beliefs," "Simple Living," "Burnout," and "World's Religions." The Center offers a place for people interested in the study of philosophy, theology, and psychology. UU authors and other writers such s Paul Tillich, Thomas Merton, and Thich Nhat Hanh are studied and discussed. It is a place to share opinions while providing basic nurture for our souls, through meditation. Paz y Armonia Center seeks and encourages contact and visits from UUs around the world.

Dr. Lilian L. Burlando
Del Tolkeyen 976
(9410) Ushuaia-Tierra Del Fuego
Argentina
Phone: 54-2901 445294
tierra.lilian @ gmail.com

Iglesia Cristiana Unitaria de Argentina (Christian Unitarian Church of Argentina)
iglesia.unitaria @ argentina.com

Australia and New Zealand

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 Auckland 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. All groups, and the association itself, maintain connections with the British General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.

The ANZUUA churches in Adelaide, Australia and in Auckland, New Zealend, are member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). ANZUUA is a member of the ICUU and IARF. The congregations publish their own newsletters and some of them have groups for youth and women.

Peter Ferguson, President
ferguson @ westnet.net.au

James Hills, Secretary
PO Box 602
Kenmore 4069
Australia

Bolivia

Grupo Unitario Universalista Boliviano
A group has been organized in La Paz as part of the Federation Latino Americana. They participate in activities of the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists (ICUU) and expect to become an ICUU "emerging group" in 2009.

Olga Flores Bedregal
Casilla de Correos No. 499
La Paz
Bolivia
Phone: (592-2) 2443491
olgafloresb @ yahoo.com

Brazil

Sociedade Unitária de São Paulo
A developing Unitarian community in Brazil which actively participates with the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists. ^

Bruno Maroneze
maronezebruno @ yahoo.com

Associação Unitarista Brasileira (Brazilian Unitarian Association)
Founded in 1935 by Rev. Charles Phelps, minister of the Unitarian Church of Recife, Associação Unitarista Brasileira (BUA) formed to promote the Unitarian faith, educating the members and public about Unitarian values and traditions. Committed to liberal theology, the majority of its membership is liberal Christian, influenced by certain aspects of Quaker testimonies.

The guiding values of this Association are Freedom, Reason, Tolerance, and Peace. With a diverse membership, the BUA has particularly seen recent growth in the participation of the LGBT community.

Based in Pernambuco, the BUA was granted Emerging Group Status by the ICUU in October, 2008. %

Rev. Gibson da Costa, President & General Manager
gibsondacosta @ unitarista.net
congregacaounitarista @ yahoo.com
AC Central Av Guararapes, 250, Caixa Postal 20
Recife, PE 50010-970
Brazil

Burundi

Assemblée des Chrétiens Unitariens du Burundi (ACUB)
A Unitarian Church meeting weekly in Bujumbura, Burnundi.

A Community Capacity Building Workshop (PDF, 34 pages) was held in Bujumbura in 2010.

Fulgence Ndagijimana, Minister
P.O BOX 6657
Bujumbura, Burundi
librefulgence @ yahoo.fr

Canada

Canadian Unitarian Council/Conseil Unitarien du Canada (CUC)
The CUC (1961) is the national association of Unitarian and Universalist societies in Canada. The CUC is an organization of Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist 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. It represents our faith in the larger social and religious environments. The CUC is affiliated with the ICUU, the UUA, the British General Assembly, and the IARF.

CUC Headquarters
344 DuPont St., Suite 100
Toronto, Ontario M5R 1V9
Canada
Phone: (416) 489-4121
info @ cuc.ca

Congo

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

Alain. P. Yengué, President
yengapat @ yahoo.fr

Cuba

Though some Unitarian Universalist activity has taken place in Cuba there is no formal institutional structure according to the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists (ICUU).

Czech Republic

The Religious Society of Czech Unitarians
The RSCU was founded on June 30, 1930 and recognized by the government on the same day. The founder and first minister, Rev. Norber F. Capek, died as a martyr in a Nazi concentration camp in 1942. Dr. Capek, writer, lecturer, and composer of over 200 Unitarian hymns, may also be known to many Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist Churches all over the world. The flaming chalice is also f Czech Unitarian origin. The RSCU is a member of the IARF and a founding member of the ICUU and has a long-standing relationship with the UUA. Previous to the Second World War, the Prague congregation was the largest Unitarian congregation in the world. Currently the Prague congregation has about 450 members. Brno, Plzen and Liberec also have Unitarian congregations. #

Jiri Gabriel
The Religious Society of Czech Unitarians
Karlova 8
110 00 Praha 1
Czech Republic
Phone: 420-222 221 049
unitaria @ unitaria.cz

Denmark

Unitarian Church of Denmark
Unitarisk Kirkesamfund is the Danish Unitarian Church founded by Rev Uffe Birkedal in 1900. Since 1966 the organization has operated as a fellowship with lay leadership for a congregation that currently claims 80 members. The church is a founding member of both ICUU and the IARF. Being the only Unitarian church in Denmark, the theology is as broad as possible. Celebrations include solstices, equinoxes, and Christmas Eve. Unitaren is a bi-monthly periodical published by the church. #

Lene Shoemaker, Vice President
Unitarisk Kirkesamfund
30 Dag Hammarskjölds Alle
Copenhagen 2100 OE
Denmark
Phone: +45 35 26 17 71
post @ unitarisme.dk

Europe

European Unitarian Universalists (EUU)
The European Unitarian Universalists (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. Fellowships are located in Belgium, the Netherlands, Paris, Germany (Kaiserslautern), as well as Basel and Geneva, Switzerland. The EUU helps its members establish new fellowships and fosters contact between Unitarian Universalist and other liberal religious groups. It publishes a quarterly newsletter, The Unifier, and sponsors twice yearly retreats in various locations. The Paris Fellowship is a member congregation of the UUA. The EUU is a founding member of ICUU. #

Peter Jarrett, President
Phone: +33 1 3082 0280
president @ europeanuu.eu

Finland

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

France

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

Association Unitarienne Francophone
20 rue de nancy
54280 Brin-sur Selle
France

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Paris
B. Stein
233 rue de Charenton
75012 Paris
France
Phone: (33) 1 30 82 75 33
info @ uufp.info

Germany

Deutscher Unitarier Religionsgemeinschaft (German Unitarians)
Deutsche Unitarier Religiongemeinschaft is a lay-led community of about 1100 members and 500 "friends" organized in 23 congregaions and a cooperative but independent youth fellowship (Bund Deutsch-Unitrischer Jugend). Both are organized according to democratic principles. The community descends from the Free Protestants, a private association in the Palatinate founded in 1876, and legally changed its name in 1950 to Deutsche Unitarier Religionsgemenschaft (German Unitarians). The movement considers the religiousness of every person to be derived from one's autonomy and capability of fulfilling one's life in a meaningful and responsible way. It tends toward scientific and philosophical humanism while acknowledging other faith traditions as well. Within this framework, the members recognize the liberty of shaping and developing their individual beliefs, and they agree on a number of (democratically resolved) basic ideas about religion, belief, human beings, life, and living together. The community runs a medium-sized conference center at Klingberg near Hamburg and publishes a bimonthly newsletter, Unitarische Blatter fur ganzheitliche Kultur. #

Deutsche Unitarier
Religionsgemeinschaft e.V.
Geschaeftsstelle
Ms. Heike Asmus
Koelnische Str. 68
34117 Kassel
Germany
info @ unitarier.de

Berlin Unitarian/Free Religious Church (Germany)
An independent Unitarian Church in Berlin, Germany. ^

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

Great Britain

General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches (UK)
There are 184 ember congregations of the General Assembly in Great Britain. A sister church, the Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland, has 33 congregations, mainly in Ulster. Total members of Unitarina congregations in Great Britain is roughly 5000. #

Derek McAuley, Chief Officer
Essex Hall, 1-6 Essex Street
London WC2R 3HY
United Kingdom
Phone: 44 20 7240 2384
ga @ unitarian.org.uk

Hong Kong

Unitarian Universalists Hong Kong
Unitarian Universalists Hong Kong is the first Unitarian Universalist society in Hong Kong. They are translating UU materials into Chinese language and they meet biweekly on Fridays. ***^

Alex Szeto
To Kwa Wan PO Box 87266
uuhongkong @ gmail.com

Hungary

Magyar Unitárius Egyház (Hungarian Unitarian Church)
In 2012 a formal "re-unification" of Unitarian churches in Hungary and Transylvania (Romania) took place.  The congregations in Hungary make up a District of the re-established Hungarian Unitarian Church which is headquartered in Kolozsvar, Transylvania (Romania)—see below. #

India

The Unitarian Union of Northeast India (UUNEI)
The Unitarian Union of Northeast India is located in the Khasi Hills where there re 35 Unitarian congregations and 8 Unitarian Fellowships with a total membership of approximately 9,900 members. These Unitarian congregations provide the leadership and educators for 25 Unitarian schools n the state of Meghalaya. The UUNEI publishes a monthly magazine in the Khasi dialect entitled U Nongwad. The Unitarian movement in the Khasi Hills was started on September 18, 1887 by Hajom Kissor Singh, who was raised by Calvinist Welsh missionaries. #

Rev. Nangroi Suting, General Secretary of the Unitarian Union Office
Unitarian Church Campus, Iawmusiang
Jowai 793150
Meghalaya
India
nsuting @ gmail.com

Unitarian Christian Church of Madras
The Madras (Chennai) Unitarian Church was founded in 1795 by William Robert, who had been taken from India to England as a slave. While in England, Roberts learned about the Unitarian faith. Upon the death of his master, Roberts returned to Madras to start a new church which continues to this day. The church provides education and religious services oa devoted community. The congregaion's membership is composed of 220 adults and 80 children. Services are held at Puraswalkam, Madras-600 007, and convene from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Sundays with Sunday classes offered 11 a.m. to noon. ^

Rev. G. Harrison Kingsley
No. 16, Azizmulk 4th Street
Thousand Lights
Madras 600006, Chennai
India
Phone: 044-28293661
kingslyprabhu @ yahoo.com

Indonesia

Unitarian Christian Church of Indonesia Facebook
Founded in 2000, there are approximately 200 people in 3 main congregations and 5 satellite congregations. #

Mr. Aryanto Nugroho
ary.nugroho @ yahoo.com

Italy

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

Japan

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

Hiroshi Kokado, Chair
Rev. Kiyohiko Tsuchida, Minister
3-10-9 Mejirodai, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo 166-0012
Phone: 81 3 3943 1879
spxz5tx9 @ basil.ocn.ne.jp

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

5-14-10 Kitazawa
Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 155-0031
Phone: 81 3 3466 8366

Unitarian Fellowship of Tokyo
An English-speaking Unitarian gathering in Tokyo. Meets every second Sunday of the month from September through June at International House. ^

Margaret (Peggy) Kanada, Chair
International House 5-11-16 Roppongi, Minato-ku,
Tokyo 106-0032
Phone: 03-3470-4611
unitarianfellowshipoftokyo@gmail.com

Unitarian Friends Circle
Yoshitsugu J. Konno
Koyama 2-11-23
Higash-Kurume
Tokyo 203-0051
Phone: 0424 76 5927
kon-uni @ air.linkclub.or.jp

Unitarian Contact in Japan
Dr. Gene Reeves, Special Minister
International Buddhist Congregation
201 Taiyoso, 1-17-4 Wada, Suginami-ku
Tokyo 166-0012
Phone: 81 3 3383 6831
reeves @ gol.com

Kenya

Kenya Unitarian Universalist Council (KUUC)
The KUUC is a recently formed umbrella group of independent congregations in Nairobi, Kitengela, Ruiru, Eastland Kayole, GIthunguri, Naro Moru, Mt. Kenya, Manga and Kisii. The KUUC has a variety of outreach ministries, and includes Women's Groups and Youth Groups.

A Community Capacity Building Workshop (PDF, 34 pages) took place with the KUUC in May, 2012. %

Mexico

Libre Congregación Unitaria de México
An Emerging church holding regular public worship services since February 2006.

Francisco Javier Lagunes Gaitan
unitarius @ gmail.com

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UU Fellowship of San Miguel de Allende
Founded in 1987 by a small group of expatriate religious liberals, this fellowship meets each Sunday in the atrium sala of La Posada de la Aldea, Ancha de San Antonio 15.

King Culp
kingculp @ mac.com
Phone: (626) 507-8220

Lake Chapala UU Fellowship
An English-language service is held every Sunday at 10:30 at the Lake Chapala Jewish Congregation building at 113 Santa Margarita in Riberas de Pilar.
lcuufinfo @ gmail.com

Nigeria

Bishop Adeniran Adedeji Isola's liberal religious outlook led to his break with the Anglican Church of Nigeria in 1915, and to the founding of what would become the Unitarian Brotherhood Church (Ijo Isokan Gbogbo Eda) in Lagos in 1917. This congregation offers Nigerians a religion that is based upon liberal Christianity but which is also welcoming to traditional and cultural practices. In 1994 another congregation, First Unitarian Church of Nigeria, was founded in a different section of Lagos. And, today, two of the sons of the founder of First Unitarian Church (Olufemi and Reverend Mati Matimoju) lead the two congregations. #

Mr. Olufemi Matimoju
The Unitarian Brotherhood Church & First Unitarian Church
25A Bankole Street
Lagos Island
Nigeria
Phone: 08043265168
femmati @ yahoo.com

Norway

UU-Fellesskapet i Norge (Unitar-universalistene)-Norwegian Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
A lay-led congregation started in 2007 by ex-pat American UUs. English language services are held once each month in the Oslo-area. See the website for details.

Philippines

The Unitarian Universalist Church of the Philippines (UUCP)
Through the deep-seated need to have religious education materials for his congregations in Negros Occidental, Rev. Toribio S. Quimada, Lay Minister of the Iglesia Universal de Cristo, acquired books through the Universalist Church in America. A self-educated Pentecostal minister and traditional farmer, Rev. Quimada preached that God is love and because of that love salvation is a gift to all. He defended his faith to the point of his excommunication. He requested the UCA to send missionaries to The Philippines to proclaim his newly-found faith and plant churches. Instead of sending missionaries over, the UCA provided moral support to Rev. Quimada in founding the Universalist Church of the Philippines, on April 25, 1955. In 1995, it became the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Philippines, duly recognized by the Philippine Government. UU churches are widely distributed n Negros Island and there are new congregations in Bicutan and Manilla. #

Rev. Rebecca Sienes, President
065 Rovira Road, Bantayan
6200 Dumaguete City Negros Oriental
011-63-35-422-7882
info @ uuphilippines.org

Poland

Though Poland was the home of early Unitarians—followers of Faustus Socinus—and some Unitarian Universalist activity has taken place there in the late 20th C, there is no formal institutional structure according to the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists (ICUU).

Romania

Magyar Unitárius Egyház (Hungarian Unitarian Church)
The Hungarian Unitarian Church traces its ancestry to 16th-century Transylvania and is the product of the Radical Reformation. Under the spiritual influence of Francis David, the founder of Transylvanian Unitarianism, the Diet of Torda proclaimed a law of toleration and freedom of conscience in 1568. Presently the number of Unitarian congregations with settled ministers is approximately 150, and the total membership is over 80,000 individuals. The Hungarian Unitarian Church has a three-level structure: congregations, six districts, and headquarters. Training for the ministry is carried out at the Unitarian Faculty of the Protestant Theological Institute. The Church publishes two periodicals: Kereszteny Magveto (Christian Sower) and Unitarius Kozlony (Unitarian Herald). 

In 2012 a formal "re-unification" of Unitarian churches in Hungary and Transylvania (Romania) took place.  The congregations in Hungary make up a District of the re-established Hungarian Unitarian Church which is headquartered in Kolozsvar, Transylvania (Romania). #

Rev. Bálint Benczédi Ferenc, Bishop
Bd. 21 Decembrie Nr. 9
400105 Cluj-Napoca
Romania
Phone: 40-264-593-236
ekt @ unitarius.com

Singapore

UU Singapore: A Unitarian Universalist Community
An English-language based UU community meeting most Sunday mornings at 10:30am in the homes of congregational members.

Contact: info @ uusingapore.org

South Africa

South African Unitarian Association
The South African Unitarian Association has been formed in order to expand the presence of Unitarianism in South Africa.  Each of the congregations in the country are represented in this group which is headed by Rev. Gordon Oliver who can be reached at gordonroliver @ metroweb.ca.za.

Unitarianism was first established in South Africa in 1867 by a Dutch reformed minister, David Faure. The founding congregation has become the Cape Town Unitarian Church located in a historic building in the central city. This congregation has a minister, the Rev. Roux Malan, and meets every Sunday at 10am. The website which includes information the church about other area Fellowships is found at capetownunitarian.org.za.

There are also Fellowships in Durban and Johannesburg. Information about these groups is found at www.unitarian.co.za.

Sri Lanka

Though some Unitarian Universalist activity has taken place in Sri Lanka there is no formal institutional structure according to the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists (ICUU).

Switzerland

The Geneva Unitarian Universalists in Geneva, Switzerland have been meeting for over 20 years. The group attracts a diverse membership: anglophone ex-patriots, permanent residents, Swiss, and visitors of different nationalities, ethnicities, belief systems—- long-time UUs as well as curious newcomers to the denomination. They meet usually on the 3rd Sunday of the month, at 4pm in the Quaker House, 13 Avenue du Mervelet, Petit Saconnex.   It is a lay-led fellowship affiliated with the European Unitarian Universalists and programs are conducted in English.  They offer two types of service. On some months the focus is on seasonal observances drawn from various religious traditions. These are joint services with adults and children meeting together. On other Sundays they examine UU themes, using various UU series as a framework. For these services a concurrent youth service is offered for children three years and older. Younger children are welcome with an accompanying adult. ^

Deborah (+41 76 463-3491)

Email: genevauu @ pckswarms.ch

The Unitarian Universalists of Basel is a newly emerging group of people from the region of Basel, Switzerland, who come together to support one another in the search for spiritual truth and meaning.

Members of this community travel from as far as Zurich, Bern, and Mulhouse and gather one Sunday per month for a worship service, currently in the Lohnhof near Barfusserplatz in Basel.^

Lara Fuchs
President
Hanfgartenweg 4
4223 Blauen
CH

+079 487 05 33

Uganda

The Unitarian Universalist Association of Uganda—formed in 2004—consists of a church in Kampala, a Fellowship near Masaka, and various Human Rights and Educational ministries.

A Community Capacity Building Workshop (PDF, 34 pages) was held in Masaka in 2010.

Rev. Mark Kiyimba
rev.kiyimba @ gmail.com

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*** from the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists (ICUU) website
# ICUU Member Groups
% ICUU Emerging Groups
^ Worldwide Unitarian/Universalist Groups Not Affiliated with the ICUU