Designated Churches

Churches designated as churches to which the permissions of the Measure and Canon B43 apply

14 March 1989 ▪ The Baptist Union ▪ The Methodist Church ▪ The ▪ The Roman Church in and Wales ▪ The United Reformed Church

17 September 1990 ▪ The Congregational Federation ▪ The International Ministerial Council of Great Britain

16 January 1991 ▪ The Lutheran Council of Great Britain

28 January 1992 ▪ The Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain (Oecumenical Patriarchate) ▪ The Council of African and Afro-Caribbean Churches ▪ The of England ▪ The Southam Road Evangelical Church, Banbury

8 October 1992 ▪ The member churches of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) (as a result of the Meissen Agreement)

10 November 1993 ▪ The Assemblies of God in Great Britain and Ireland

30 August 1994 ▪ The New Testament Church of God

2 January 1996 ▪ The Russian Orthodox Church ( of Sourozh)

7 June 2000 ▪ The Independent Methodist Churches

6 July 2001 (Date of motion in General Synod (on the basis of the Reuilly Agreement)) ▪ The United Protestant Churches of Alsace and Lorraine (formerly the Church of the Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine and the Church of the Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine) ▪ The Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine ▪ The United Protestant Church of (formerly the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of France and the Reformed Church of France)

1 January 2012 ▪ The Council of Oriental Orthodox Churches in the and the Republic of Ireland The Measure and Canons apply to the following churches by virtue of their membership of the Council The Armenian Apostolic Church in the UK and Republic of Ireland The Coptic Church in the UK and Republic of Ireland The Eritrean Orthodox Church in the UK and Republic of Ireland The Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the UK and Republic of Ireland The Indian Orthodox Church in the UK and Republic of Ireland The Syrian Orthodox Church in the UK and Republic of Ireland, incorporating The Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church

25 July 2014 ▪ The Church of the Nazarene (British Isles South District)

30 July 2014 ▪ The Church of Scotland 9 July 2016 ▪ The Apostolic Pastoral Congress