Four students from the Bossey Ecumenical Institute visited the Methodist Ecumenical Office Rome on 19 January 2026. The four students who hail from member churches of the World Methodist Council are participating in the Institute’s annual Rome study trip.
The Bossey Institute is a graduate-level academic program of the World Council of Churches and attached to the University of Geneva. Each year the Institute welcomes a group of no more than 60 students from around the world and from many different Christian traditions for ecumenical or interreligious studies.
During the meeting, Rev. Matthew A. Laferty, director of the Methodist Ecumenical Office Rome, shared about Methodist-Catholic relations and the work of the Methodist Ecumenical Office Rome. He also led a lively discussion on Christian unity in the 21st century.
Pictured left to right: Rev. Ntobeko Dlamini (Methodist Church of Southern Africa), Rev. Laferty, Rev. Gamaliel Adamu (The United Methodist Church in Nigeria), Mr. Johan Wahlström (Equmeniakyrkan/Uniting Church of Sweden) and Rev. Nathanael Macauley (Methodist Church in Togo).
Methodist Ecumenical Office Rome 