United Church of Christ |United Church of Christ| |The official
logo of the United Church of Christ.| |Associations||Churches
Uniting In Christ National Council of Churches World Communion
of Reformed Churches World Council of Churches |Geographical
areas||United States| |Merge of||Evangelical and Reformed Church
and the Congregational Christian Churches| |Members||1,080,198
(last published data in 2008); probably under 1,000,000 by 2013|
The United Church of Christ (UCC) is a mainline Protestant
Christian denomination primarily in the Reformed tradition, in
"historical continuation of the Congregational churches founded
under the influence of New England Puritanism." The Evangelical
and Reformed Church and the Congregational Christian Churches
united in 1957 to form the UCC. These two denominations, which
were themselves the result of earlier unions, had their roots in
Congregational, Evangelical, and Reformed denominations. The
UCC's 5,287 congregations claim 1,080,198 members, primarily in
the United State