in when we recite the Nicene Creed: ‘We believe in one holy, catholic and apostolic church …’ It is in the light of the Spirit’s constituting the church as catholic that we can begin to appreciate the ecumenical impulse of the Pentecostal pioneer William Seymour at the Azusa Street Mission. Seymour was a remarkable man, probably the only person at that time who clearly understood the real significance of the Pentecostal outpouring, because he saw it as the event to bring into existence a church which