Description:
Text transcribed from caption: P-45909 AT CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETING WEST
BERLIN -- The annual meeting of the Central Committee of the World Council of
Churches brought church leaders from all over the world to West Berlin for
the committee’s last meeting before the 1975 WCC General Assembly. In top
photo, from left, are: the Rev. Sang Park of Korea; Pauline Webb of Britain,
vice-chairman of the Central Committee; Dr. Kiyoko T. Cho of Japan, a WCC
president; and Dr. W.A. Visser ‘t Hooft, former general secretary and
honorary president of the Council. Below, from left, are: anthropologist Dr.
Margaret Mead; Central Committee members Oberlandeskirchenrat Ulrich von
Bruck of the Lutheran Church of Saxony and Bishop D. Kurt Scharf of the
Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg; and Dr. Paul Albrecht, a WCC staff
member. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (C-GEN-8C-74-DS)
Creator:
World Council of Churches. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., World Council of Churches. Central Committee--Congresses., World Council of Churches. Central Committee., Park, Sang., Webb, Pauline., Takeda, Kiyoko, 1917-2018., Visser’t Hooft, W. M. (Willem M.), Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978., Brück, Ulrich von., Scharf, Kurt., Albrecht, Paul G. E., Kaiser Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche (Berlin, Germany)
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--Germany--Berlin., Ecumenical movement--Germany (West), Clergy--Germany--Berlin., Anthropologists--Germany--Berlin., Women anthropologists--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany), Germany (West)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360891