Right_Rev_Ian73

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  1. 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

  2. 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

    ANSWER

    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

    QUESTION

    I have recently been ordained into the Universal Life Church

    Sent to UK Law Experts 10/8/2009 at 6:31 AM

    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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    Province/Country relating to question : England

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    10/9/2009 at 4:37 AM (22 hours and 6 minutes and 31 seconds later)

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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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