Brief History

The National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) is the largest aggroupation of non-Roman Catholic churches in the Philippines. For over four decades, the NCCP has kept abreast with and is continually responding to the signs of the times, ever focused on its vision for itself and the wider church and following the example of Jesus.


Founded in 1963, the National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) is an ecumenical fellowship of non-Roman Catholic denominations in the Philippines working for unity in faith and order. This implies providing the churches opportunities for common prophetic witness and service in responding to the people’s issues, specifically justice and peace, human dignity and rights, and the integrity of creation. It finds its theological basis on the fact of the incarnation – of God in solidarity with us, especially with those who suffer and the vulnerable – for the affirmation of just and inclusive communities. It also compels the church to bring about Christian hope in to the realm of the possible in a society weighed down by systemic violence and degradation.

With ten member-churches and nine associate members, it is the largest non-Catholic church organization in the Philippines. The founding member churches of the NCCP are the

  • Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches
  • Iglesia Evangelica Metodista En Las Islas Filipina (Philippine Evangelical Methodist Church)
  • Unida de Cristo (now, Iglesia Unida Ekyumenikal; United Ecumenical Church)
  • Iglesia Filipina Independiente (Philippine Independent Church)
  • Philippine Episcopal Church,
  • United Methodist Church,
  • United Church of Christ in the Philippines

The ministry of the NCCP is organized into three distinct programs – Ecumenical Education and Nurture, Christian Unity and Ecumenical Relations, and Faith, Witness and Service – which seek to express its mission of promoting fellowship, being a channel of united witness and a vibrant and credible institution for Christian solidarity towards genuine transformation of church and society.

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