General Secretary, the United Presbyterian Church of South Africa
Pillay in 2022
Church
Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa
Other post(s)
President, the World Communion of Reformed Churches General Secretary, World Council of Churches from January 2023
Personal details
Born
1965 (age 58–59)
South Africa
Denomination
Calvinist
Alma mater
University of Durban-Westville University of Cape Town
Jerry Pillay is a Reformed pastor, member of the Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa, professor of theology at the University of Pretoria where he heads the Department of History and Ecclesiology and is Dean of the Faculty of Theology and Religion.[1] He was elected president of the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) in 2010 and, in June 2022, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC),[2] to take office on 1 January 2023.[3]
^"South African Jerry Pillay elected new WCC General Secretary". www.cath.ch/ (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2022.
^"Newly elected WCC general secretary believes that growing up in South Africa will help him in his approach to conflict and suffering". the World Council of Churches. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
^"Rev. Dr Jerry Pillay (Presbyterian Church) Beats Dr Elizabeth Joy (Malankara Orthodox Church) to Become the New WCC General Secretary". ocpsociety.org/. 17 June 2022. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
JerryPillay is a Reformed pastor, member of the Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa, professor of theology at the University of Pretoria where...
2021. On January 4, 2023, World Council of Churches general secretary JerryPillay joined the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem and all the churches of the...
Year Name Church affiliation 2010–2017 JerryPillay Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa 2017–2025 Najla Kassab National Evangelical Synod of...
Ignatius Aphrem The Second, Patriarch of Antioch and all the East Reverend JerryPillay, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches Doctor Mohammed Cholil...
and the Robert Mugabe interview". Bulawayo 24. Retrieved 1 December 2014. Pillay, Verashni (4 June 2014). "Why Dali Tambo's Robert Mugabe interview was just...
Blues for Klook by Eddy Louiss choreo. by Mark Pillay Moulin Rouge! by Craig Armstrong choreo. by Mark Pillay 2014–2015 Fascination by Fermo Dante Marchetti...
Retrieved 4 February 2023. Abraham, Derek (24 November 2013). "You can call him Jerry Maguire". DNA India. Archived from the original on 6 May 2015. Retrieved...
McNair New Zealand First MP 2002–05 Fia Misa Tupou Pacific Party Lynne Pillay Labour Party Incumbent 2002–2008; returned to parliament from party list...
DoingBuzz (in French). 6 September 2020. Retrieved 22 June 2023. Fisayo-Bambi, Jerry (22 February 2024). "Nigeria's Yakubu Gowon, the last living founding father...
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Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on. 2006. doi:10.1109/TMAG.2006.879077 P. Pillay; R. Krishnan. "Application characteristics of permanent magnet synchronous...
original on 22 February 2007. Retrieved 15 March 2007. Pillay, Dr Rev Jerry (26 April 2011). "Jerry Keeping in Touch: Keeping in touch - 2". "South African...
African Broadcasting Corporation, Malcolm Theunissen, Victor Nikitin, Melanie Pillay, Advent Graphics, 1996, page 120 The Six Million Dollar Man, TVSA - The...
to Bowl Limpopo won the toss and elected to bat first. T20 debut : Alex Pillay,Daniel van der Merwe , Thabile Hlatuka, Wisani Mushwana Easterns won the...
from the original on 23 January 2021. Retrieved 23 January 2021. Kirthana Pillay; Emma Rumney (25 January 2021). "Thirteen dead, thousands homeless in southern...
Navi Pillay, expressed concern about pressure being placed on private companies to enact a financial blockade against WikiLeaks, which Pillay said was...
name. He is also India's second youngest international goal scorer after Jerry Zirsanga when he scored his first goal against Uzbekistan in 1995 Nehru...
Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 2011 "American Oxygen" Alexander Grant Candice Pillay X Ambassadors Robyn Fenty Non-album single 2015 "As Real as You and Me"...
stoning". BBC. Retrieved 22 April 2011. Nebehay, Stephanie (10 July 2009). "Pillay accuses Somali rebels of possible war crimes". Times of India. Archived...
Sydney Basin, in Australian and New Zealand Geomorphology Group, p. 66-80. Pillay, D (23 June 2010). "Expanding the envelope: linking invertebrate bioturbators...
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