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Switzerland Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, or simply Switzerland Yearly Meeting or SYM, is the organizing body for Quaker groups and meetings in Switzerland. == History == The first known Swiss member of the Society of Friends is Theophil Waldmeier (1832–1915), missionary to Ethiopia and Lebanon. SYM is rooted on one side with Swiss citizens involved in several movements like the Religious Socialists, the International Fellowship of Reconciliation and Service Civil International, and on another side with the presence of Quakers from England and the United States of America.〔(History of SYM ).〕 Leading figures were Hélène Monastier (1882–1976) and Pierre Ceresole (1879–1945), and later on Edmond Privat (1889–1962). Local worshipping groups held their first regular meetings in Geneva and Zürich in the beginning of the 1920s. The first national gathering of Friends and friends of Friends took place in 1934, and went on every year, under the umbrella of London Yearly Meeting. It became the ''Swiss General Meeting'' in 1939. The status of an independent Yearly Meeting was given in 1947. File:TheophilWaldmeier.jpg|Theophil Waldmeier File:HeleneMonastier.jpg|Hélène Monastier File:PierreCeresole.jpg|Pierre Ceresole File:Privat.jpg|Edmond Privat 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Switzerland Yearly Meeting」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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