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The Prairie Centre for Ecumenism is an ecumenical organization sponsored by seven Christian denominations in the region of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. It is one of only two ecumenical centres in Canada, and one of the few in the world that specializes in local congregational ecumenical activity.

The Prairie Centre for Ecumenism was established in 1984 with the title Centre for Ecumenism, as a diocesan office for ecumenism and interreligious relations in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon. The founding director of the Centre was Fr. Bernard de Margerie, a priest of the diocese. At its inception, the Centre had an advisory board that included representatives from other local churches. Within a few years it became clear that the Centre was serving all of the churches in Saskatoon, and so a decision was made to re-establish the Centre with a formal sponsorship from the churches of Saskatoon. An invitation was sent to the churches, and the Anglican Diocese of Saskatoon, the Saskatchewan Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, the Saskatoon Presbytery of the United Church of Canada, and the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saskatoon joined the Roman Catholic Diocese as formal sponsors of the Centre in 1988. A year later, the Presbytery of Northern Saskatchewan of the Presbyterian Church in Canada joined, and in January 2009 the Mennonite Church Saskatchewan became the seventh sponsoring church.