Myanmar Council of Churches(MCC)

A Brief History

The Myanmar Council of Churches (MCC) started in 1914 as Burma Representative Council of Missions of major foreign missions of the Anglicans(USPG&BCMS from England), Baptists(American Baptist Mission), Lutherans(Leipzig Mission), Methodists(both British Wesleyan Methodist and American Episcopalian Methodist) and some ecumenical organizations such as SCM,YMCA,YWCA,etc. It was attributed traditionally to the inspiration received by the missionary and Church leaders from the historical visit of Dr. John R. Mott to Rangoon in January1913 on his world-wide missionary tour after the Edinburgh World Missionary Conference. It adopted the name “Burma Christian Council”in 1923 under the National Christian Council of India, Burma, and Ceylon as Burma was part of the one administrative territory under the British colony of India, Burma and Ceylon. In 1948, following the country’s independence, it became an autonomous national ecumenical body of Burma Christian Council. In 1972, the Burma Christian Council was reconstituted as the Burma Council of Churches. It was renamed the Myanmar Council of Churches in 1990 as the country’s name was changed from Burma to Myanmar by the new military government (then the State Law and Order Restoration Council, now the State Peace and Development Council since November 1997).

Address:

Myanmar Council of Churches

No.601 Pyay Road

University P.O,

Kamayut 11041

Yangon

Myanmar

Tel. 095-513579/ 0951 537957/ 0951 721076