Archives

The WCC’s Archives exist to safeguard and transmit the institutional memory of the ecumenical  movement.  They serve as a source of information for WCC staff, the student community, researchers and the wider public. With more than 500,000 documents on microfilm, 400,000 negatives and slides and 180,000 prints, 500 videos, 3,000 sound tapes and some 12,000 archive boxes, the WCC owns a unique collection of specialised documents pertaining to the ecumenical movement and its history.

The WCC’s archivist sorts, describes and preserves all the documents produced by the WCC, both print and audio-visual.  The Archives also hold most of the documents from all the major ecumenical organisations of the 20th century.