Local councils of churches (Topical Term)
- Councils of churches, Local
- Church federations, Local
- Federations, Local church
- Earlier heading: Local church councils
- Local church federations
- Broader heading: Interdenominational cooperation
Growing together: a manual for councils of churches, 1955: p. 15 (state and local councils; church federations) p. 18 (a council of churches is an officially approved and constituted agency of a group of churches and/or communions that desire to forward certain phases of their work in co-operation with one another)
Kessler, D. Councils of churches and the ecumenical vision, 2000: p. 1 (a council of churches may be defined as a voluntary association of separated and autonomous Christian churches within a defined geographic area)
Sanderson, R. Church cooperation in the United States: the nation-wide backgrounds and ecumenical significance of state and local councils of churches... 1960.