Iona Community

The Iona Community, founded in 1938 by the Rev George MacLeod, is an ecumenical Christian community of men and women from different walks of life and different traditions within Christianity.

It and its publishing house, Wild Goose Publications, are headquartered are in Glasgow, Scotland, but its main activities take place on the island of Iona, and, to a lesser extent, also on Mull, in Argyll and Bute.

The community began as a project led by George MacLeod, at that time a minister of the Church of Scotland in Govan, Glasgow, to close the gap which he perceived between the church and working people. He took a group of ministers and working men to Iona to rebuild the ruined medieval Iona Abbey together. The community which grew out of this was initially under the supervision of an Iona Community Board reporting to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, but later the formal links with the Church of Scotland were loosened to allow the community more scope for ecumenical involvement.

The Iona Community is a dispersed community. It has members who work and live throughout world. There were 270 Full Members, "around 1,800" Associate Members and 1,600 Friends of the Community. Among them are Presbyterians, Anglicans, Lutherans, Quakers, Roman Catholics and people of no denominational allegiance. The community has a strong commitment to ecumenism and to peace and justice issues.

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