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Thanks for the reply, sorry I meant WE as in the UK members, what can we do to get the ULC recognised within the UK and get the same freedom as the ULC gets in America. The question is really aimed at everyone living within the United Kingdom
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Does anyone know how we can set up a petition to get the Unliversal Life Church recognised/Established in the United Kingdom? I've searched on the UK Parliments hansard website and I've found this, and this is the ONLY mention of the ULC anywhere within the Hansard website.
The Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (the Act) provides for places of meeting for religious worship, excluding those belonging to the Established Church, to be certified to the Registrar General. A number of tests are applied by the Registrar General when a place of meeting for religious worship is certified to him. This includes the application of the judgment by the Court of Appeal in the Segerdal case in 1970. The main finding in the judgment is that the words 'place of meeting for religious worship' in the Act connote a place of which the principal use is for people to come together as a congregation to worship God or do reverence to a deity. A further test is whether the principal use of the building is for worship or for other matters, such as a private home or social club.
Once the Registrar General is satisfied that the place of worship certified to him is capable of recognition, he adds it to the register of such places which, under the Act, he has a duty to maintain.
The duty placed on the Registrar General does not extend to maintaining and retaining records of places or organisations that are not capable of recognition as places of worship under the Act, and the records held in this respect by the Registrar General are incomplete. However, the records that the Registrar General does hold confirm that since 1979, the following organisations have made unsuccessful applications for buildings certified as places of worship to be added to the register:
Universal Life Church
Miracle Revival Assembly
Calvary Full Gospel Church
Christians not otherwise designated
Roman Catholics
The Methodist Church
Who object to be designated by any distinctive Religious Appellation
Order of Christ Spirit
Christian Spiritualist
Jehovah's Witnesses
Centre for Christ
Pentecostal Assemblies of God
Baptists
Mount Zion Holiness Assembly
Church of Christ
Christian Fellowship in Huddersfield
Interdenomination
Christians Nazarenes Methodist and Pentecostal
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Wentworth Road Christian Fellowship
Assemblies of God
Llanelli Baptist
Great Conrad Free Church
Calvary Church of God
Church of God
Good News Church Macclesfield
The Spiritualist Sanctuary
German Speaking Evangelical Lutheran Congregation
The Order of Women Freemasons
Muslims
Gur Sangat
Orthodox Christians
Cramlington Spiritualist Church
Frankley Methodist /Anglican Church
Fellowship of Churches of Christ
God's Church of Peace
Penzance Christian Fellowship
Nailsea Christian Fellowship
Pentwyn Christian Fellowship
Officers and Members of Emmanuel Pentecostal Faith Church of God
Church of Christ of Bethlehem
Weybridge United Reformed Church
Horringer Court Christian Fellowship
Christchurch Abbeydale
Brotherhood Movement
Caribbean House Chaplaincy
Greater World Christian Spiritualist Association
The Independent African Caribbean Church of Christ of Nazareth
The Pentecostal Evangelistic Assembly
Letchworth Lodge of the Theosophical Society in England
The Holiness Church of God Inc.
The Othona Community
Trinity Church of Christ
The New Benedictine Order
The Spiritualists National Union Redwoods
Redditch Christian Fellowship
The British Sailor's Society
Emmanuel Christian Fellowship
Highfield Free Church
Good News Church
Hammarens Ordens Sallskap-The Order of the Hammer
Apostolic Church of God Seventh Day
Mechanics
Korean Presbyterian Church
Coptic Orthodox Church
United Reformed Church
The Ashford Christian Spiritualist Church
Amazing Grace and Friends
Tavistock Community Church
Apostolics
Trinity Church of Christ
Church of England and United Reformed Church
Confucians (Buddhists, Goddess of Mercy)
Apostolic Church International (in UK)
Members of the Correllian Nativist Church International
Buddhists (New Kadampa Tradition)
Cantheist
Freedom Family Church
Redeemed Christian Church of God
C.J's City
St. Andrews Church of God
Wiccan
Life Sanctuary Church
Kriya Yoga Ashram
Jesus Christ The Great Salvation Fellowship
Mount Sion Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ
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QUESTION
Please can you tell me if a minister who is ordained into the Universal Life Church can perform weddings in this county/country and what the requirements are before they can provide a wedding service? The person I'm asking about has all the credentials confirming their ordination. they have the title Right Reverend
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This question has been put to me on several previous occasions and the answer is that in order to conduct a marriage ceremony with these credentials the individual will need to approach a non denominational registered building and apply to the trustees for permission to conduct ceremonies in their church or chapel. These qualifications in themselves do not allow for the person to register a marriage in the registers held by the church or chapel.
Civil marriages are managed and conducted by the different District Registration services throughout England and Wales. These can have no religious reference or content.
I would suggest that the individual contact the minister of a local registered building where religious marriage ceremonies are performed and ask whether their skills can be used.
Regards
Linda McKellar
Superintendent Registrar and Training Officer
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I have recently been ordained into the Universal Life Church
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I have recently been ordained into the Universal Life Church as a minister, I have spoken to the local register office who informed me that I am legally allowed to preform weddings but only in a non denominated church or chapel, is this correct? if so How would I go about finding a non-denomination church/chapel within Gloucestershire?
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Under the Marriage Act 1949 s.26 the Superintendent Registrar can authorise a religious marriage other than a Church of England or other defined denominational marriage by whoever the couple choose in a ceremony taking whatever form they like at a 'registered building'. Any building regularly used by at least 20 people for religious worship can be registered. So, the church does not need to be totally 'non-denominational', but just not Anglican, Jewish or Quaker. Under s.41 the Superintendent Registrar within the district and the Registrar General in the General Register Office must keep records of registered buildings. On a quick Google I could not find a list on the web for Gloucestershire, but if you call the register office again and ask them for a list of registered buildings they should be able to provide this to you. Alternatively you can contact the General Register Office (0845 603 7788). The problem you will have is that many churches or religious buildings which will be registered will not allow someone from a different denomination to officiate there. You will just have to ask a lot of places until you get a satisfactory response. I would particularly suggest trying University or College chapels as these are often non-denominational.
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thanks for all the replies, I copied that list from Hansard website