European gathering.Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva. (ENI)--The Romanian city of Sibiu, named as one of the European Capitals of Culture for 2007, has been chosen as the site for a major continental religious gathering. The Conference of European Churches The Conference of European Churches (CEC) was founded in 1959 to promote reconciliation, dialogue and friendship between the churches of Europe at a time of growing Cold War political tensions and divisions. (CEC (Central Electronic Complex) The set of hardware that defines a mainframe, which includes the CPU(s), memory, channels, controllers and power supplies included in the box. Some CECs, such as IBM's Multiprise 2000 and 3000, include data storage devices as well. ) announced on Oct. 4 that Sibiu would host the third European Ecumenical Assembly which CEC is organizing with the Council of European (Roman Catholic) Bishops' Conferences. The two church groupings account for almost all of Europe's Anglican, Orthodox, Protestant, and Roman Catholic churches List of Roman Catholic Churches
The assembly is scheduled for September 2007, the CEC announced after a recent meeting of its main governing body Noun 1. governing body - the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something; "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he . The two previous ecumenical assemblies were in Basle, Switzerland, in 1989, and in Graz, Austria, in 1997. The Basle gathering came just before the events that led to the collapse of communism in eastern Europe, and drew 7,000 people to its closing worship. At Graz, 700 delegates were joined by more than 10,000 other participants. |
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