The first significant effort in modern times to encourage cooperation among Protestants was the Evangelical Alliance, organized in London in 1846. Then, in 1908, thirty-one American denominations joined in the Federal Council of Churches. In 1950 this Council was absorbed by a larger body, the National Council of Churches of Christ. Yet the most ambitious expression of ecclesiastical ecumenism is the World Council of Churches, formed in 1948 at Amsterdam.
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