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Reformed Episcopal Church
As of 2016, the REC reports 108 parishes and missions in the United States and three in Canada, and also has churches in Croatia, Cuba, Germany, and Serbia. In 2009, the Reformed Episcopal Church reported 13,600 members.
Reformed Episcopal Seminary
The Reformed Episcopal Seminary is a theological seminary located in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1887 as the first seminary of the Reformed Episcopal Church.
United Reformed Churches in North America
The URCNA was founded as a federation of Reformed churches in 1996 at Lynwood, Illinois CRC. Most of the members that founded the URCNA left the CRCNA, due to disagreement on several issues like women's ordination and evolution cases, and conservative reformed believers were concerned that the Christian Reformed Churches were departing from Scriptural teaching to accommodate modern social trends. Some 36 churches with 7,600 members joined the federative unity and held their first Synod and adopted the name The United Reformed Churches in North America. They wanted to claim back their original, confessional Reformed roots. In 1997 the synod in St. Catharines adopted the church Order based on the Church Order of Dort. Currently there are 8 classes (regional groups of congregations) in the URCNA. At least once every three years elder and pastor delegates gather for a synodical meeting.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Grand Rapids has a significant Dutch Reformed population. The Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRCNA) has a large following in Grand Rapids; its denominational offices are located on the southeast side of the city. The CRCNA has over 230 congregations and almost 100,000 members in Michigan as of 2010. The denomination is concentrated in the western part of the state, where a substantial number of immigrants from the Netherlands settled; a majority of them were followers of the Reformed faith, having taken part in the Secession of 1834. As of 2012, the Christian Reformed Church in North America has nearly 1,100 congregations and over 250,000 members nationwide.
The Grand Rapids-Wyoming Metropolitan Area has 149 Christian Reformed Churches with 77,389 members.
World Reformed Fellowship
There are a total of 72 denominational members of the Fellowship, and 183 organizational members, as of February 2, 2016.
Reformed Episcopal Church
The Reformed Episcopal Church (REC) is an Anglican church of evangelical Episcopalian heritage. It was founded in 1873 in New York City by George David Cummins, formerly a bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Evangelical and Reformed Church
The Reformed Church in the United States, long known as the German Reformed Church, organized its first synod in 1747 and adopted a constitution in 1793. Later, in the 1910s, a small group of immigrant Hungarian Reformed congregations joined the RCUS as a separate judicatory, the Magyar Synod.
Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa
The Uniting Reformed Church consists of approximately 1,230,000 members of them about 500,000 confessing members (excluding all those who are only baptised) and 683 congregations. Its name (which is in the continuous tense) and its logo (which is an incomplete circle) reflects the Church's emphasis on unity, and its hope for an even greater church unification within the family of God.
Reformed Episcopal Church
Cummins Memorial Theological Seminary, located in Summerville, South Carolina, near Charleston, is named for Bishop George Cummins, the founder of the Reformed Episcopal Church. The seminary which is conservative, evangelical, biblical and Anglican was founded in the later part of the nineteenth century as a rogative college, meaning it was located wherever the Bishop of the Southeast took up residence. Colonel Stevens from the Citadel was the first bishop. The founding bishop was Bishop David Cummins. In 1912, the Diocese of the Southeast purchased property for a permanent campus. Its motto is to "enter to learn and depart to serve". Its purpose is to equip generations of Church leaders for excellence in ministry and service with the theological foundation and skills to meet the spiritual, emotional and physical needs of communities through the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Reformed Episcopal Church
In 1877, in response to a petition from REC sympathizers in England, the REC's Fifth General Council acted to establish the Reformed Episcopal Church in that country. Former Church of England minister Thomas Huband Gregg was consecrated a bishop to lead adherents there. By 1910 there were 28 ministers and 1,990 communicant members constituting the Reformed Episcopal Church in that country. In 1927, the Reformed Episcopal Church in England merged with the Free Church of England.
Protestantism
The biggest Reformed association is the World Communion of Reformed Churches with more than 80 million members in 211 member denominations around the world. There are more conservative Reformed federations like the World Reformed Fellowship and the International Conference of Reformed Churches, as well as independent churches.
United Church of Christ
The United Church of Christ (UCC) is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination based in the United States, with historical confessional roots in the Congregational, Reformed, and Lutheran traditions, and with approximately 4,956 churches and 853,778 members. The United Church of Christ is a historical continuation of the General Council of Congregational Christian churches founded under the influence of New England Pilgrims and Puritans. Moreover, it also subsumed the third largest Reformed group in the country, the German Reformed. The Evangelical and Reformed Church and the General Council of 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, Lutheran, Evangelical, and Reformed denominations. At the end of 2014, the UCC's 5,116 congregations claimed 979,239 members, primarily in the U.S. In 2015, Pew Research estimated that 0.4 percent, or 1 million adult adherents, of the U.S. population self-identify with the United Church of Christ.
Reformed Presbyterian Church in Ethiopia
The Reformed Presbyterian Church in Ethiopia was founded by missionaries of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church United States. It has more than 1,000 members.
Reformed Church of France
The church had approximately 300,000 members at the time of merger, distributed in a somewhat unequal fashion throughout French metropolitan territory, with the exception of Alsace-Moselle and the Pays de Montbéliard, as the Protestant Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine brings together most of the local Calvinists there. The church consists of 400 parishes, organised in 50 presbyteries ("consistoires") and eight administrative regions.
Netherlands Reformed Churches
The Netherlands Reformed Churches had 33,030 members in 2011, about 20,975 are communicants, and 12,045 are non-communicants. This church statistic means a growth of more than 392 in the last year. The church was served by 86 pastors. Since 1985 the office of deacons are open to women, and since 2004 elders can be women too. In 31 congregation all ministries and positions open for women, 16 congregations elders and deacons can be women, in 16 churches the office of deacon, and in 20 congregation no women officers are allowed.
Open Episcopal Church
The Open Episcopal Church (OEC) is a liberal Christian denomination. It has bishops in England and Wales and clergy throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. It has over 29,000 members.
Reformed Evangelical Anglican Church of South Africa
In 2009, the denomination was composed of just under 200 congregations, with a total of about 120,000 members. All churches must contribute 10% of their income to a central fund, but in practice some churches do not. Christ Church, Midrand; Christ Church, Pinetown; and St James Church, Kenilworth all have memberships of several thousand, with attendances on Sunday morning services at about 1000. The average church size is about 150.The Reformed Evangelical Anglican Church of South Africa is a member of the World Reformed Fellowship.
Reformed Congregations
The Reformed Congregations (in Dutch: Gereformeerde Gemeenten, abbreviated GerGem) is a conservative Reformed church with 152 congregations in the Netherlands, 1 in Randburg South Africa and 1 congregation in Carterton, New Zealand. The denomination has approximately 107,299 members as of 1 January 2015. It is a pietistic Reformed Church. It is affiliated with the North American Netherlands Reformed Congregations.
Reformed Church in America
The Reformed Church in America (RCA) is a mainline Reformed Protestant denomination in Canada and the United States. It has about 223,675 members, with the total declining in recent decades. From its beginning in 1628 until 1819, it was the North American branch of the Dutch Reformed Church.
Reformed Episcopal Seminary
Until 1982, the chief institutional officer of the seminary was the dean. As the seminary was originally the seminary of the Reformed Episcopal Church and is now a ministry of the REC Diocese of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic (formerly the New York and Philadelphia Synods), several of the presidents and deans have been the diocesan bishop.
J. A. D. Bloice – 1895, Hymnist and leader in the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Reformed Presbyterian Church of Equatorial Guinea
Today, the IRPGE is a minority church within the country of Equatorial Guinea, which is dominated by Roman Catholic Churches and belief. According to data collected in 2006, the IRPGE counted approximately 8,000 members in 21 congregations, including those on the mainland and on the island of Bioko. However, a more recent survey by the church ascertains a decline in memberships. The approximate number of members has fallen to 3,500 in the three presbyteries “Centro”, “Corisco” and “East” and the total of now 29 congregations. According to the WCC statistics the church has 8,230 members in 29 congregations served by 21 pastors. Manuel Nzoh Asumu has been General Secretary of the IRPGE since 2009. The IRPGE is set up in a typical Presbyterian system (Presbyterianism).
Reformed Episcopal Church
The Reformed Episcopal Church, according to its own Book of Common Prayer, holds that from Apostolic times, there have been three orders of ministry: Bishops, Presbyters and deacons.
Reformed Christian Church in Croatia
According to the statistics of the Hungarian Reformed Church it has 23 congregations and 4,000 members served by 4 female and 8 male pastors.
Christian Reformed Church in Cuba
The Christian Reformed Church in Cuba is a Reformed and Presbyterian Church in Cuba. It was founded by Jesse Vander Valk of Paterson, New Jersey decided to work in Cuba. She worked with the Cuban Evangelical association. Mission stations were in Matanzas Province. She spent 22 years in Cuba and married a Cuban pastor Rev. Vicente Izquierdo. In 1944 the Cuban Evangelical Association was dissolved. The couple decided to continue this work with the support of Christian Reformed Church in North America and formed the Interior Gospel Mission. This Internal Gospel Mission was officially adopted by the CRCNA in 1958. A Missionary was sent in 1959. The new church continue to grow, by 1974 the Iglesia Cristiana Reformada had 12 congregations and 8 pastors. The In 2004 it had 12 congregations 24 house fellowships and 12,000 members.
Reformed Baptists
By the year 2000, Reformed Baptist groups in the United States totalled about 16,000 people in 400 congregations.
Reformed Congregations in North America
The Reformed Congregations in North America has official ties with the Reformed Congregations in the Netherlands, and the churches are mainly in Canada. It has approximately 1747 members, three churches in Canada and one in the United States in 2012. The theology focus is mainly on the time of the Further reformation. The largest church is the congregation of Chilliwack with over 1,200 members.
Evangelical-Reformed Church of Appenzell
The Evangelical-Reformed Church of Appenzell is a Reformed state church in Appenzell, Switzerland. In 2004 it had 30,151 members and 20 parishes and 26 house fellowships, served by 21 pastors. Member of the Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches.
The church can be found all over Appenzell.
Polish Reformed Church
According to Poland's Central Statistical Office, the Polish Reformed Church has 3,461 members (2015). The majority of church members live in central Poland; in 2014 out of a total number of 3464 adherents, 1800 lived in Łódź Voivodeship and 1000 in the city of Warsaw. There are eight congregations in Poland:
Evangelical Reformed Presbyterian Church
The Evangelical Reformed Presbyterian Church was a Christian denomination of the Reformed tradition founded in late 2004. The first member churches were received in 2005. According to information on its website, the ERPC's formation was in response to a perceived acceptance by churches such as the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and Presbyterian Church in America of departures from Biblical doctrine in a number of areas, including:
Christian Reformed Church in South Africa
A denominational member of World Reformed Fellowship.
The moderator is Rev. Sakkie Weber, the Vice Moderator is Rev. Johnnie Tromp.
The denomination is present in 6 South African Provinces, these are:
Approximately 32 churches belong to the Christian Reformed Church in South Africa
Presbyterian Church in Korea (KoRyuPa)
The Presbyterian Church in Korea (KoRyuPa) is an orthodox Calvinist denomination in South Korea.
The church is also known as the Korean Reformed Presbyterian Church. The denomination was a result of the split of the Presbyterian Church in Korea (Koshin) due tensions in the KoRyu Seminary. Pastor Park Yun-Sun moved to Seoul and founded the Reformed Theological Seminary. To avoid division Park returned to Koshin but Chung Hun-Teuk took over as the director in the Seminary. In 1965 about 50 pastors was associated with the Seminary. The denomination has close contact with conservative Reformed churches in Japan, Netherlands and the United States. The church has approximately 80,000 members in 500 congregations and 16 presbyteries. No women ordination. It had 501 ordained ministers. The church subscribes the Westminster Confession of Faith, and the Apostles Creed. Since 1977 the leading figure of the church has been Yoo Don-Sik, who also directs the Reformed Theological Seminary too.
Missaukee County, Michigan
The Christian Reformed Church in North America is far the biggest denomination in the county with 2,010 members and 7 congregations, almost 50% of the counties population adhere to the CRCNA, followed by the Reformed Church in America with 3 congregations and 830 members, the third is the United Methodist Church with 3 churches and 500 members, the PC(USA) has 2 congregations and 200 members, but the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, the Lutherans (ELCA), baptists are also represented with 1 congregations each. Missaukee County is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gaylord and has 1 congregations and 800 members. There is an Amish community in the county, founded in 2000, with two church districts in 2013.
Calvinism
The Reformed family of churches is one of the largest Christian denominations. According to adherents.com the Reformed/Presbyterian/Congregational/United churches represent 75 million believers worldwide.
Reformed Church in Romania
The Reformed Church in Romania (; ) is the organization of the Calvinist church in Romania.
The majority of its followers are of Hungarian ethnicity and Hungarian is the main church language. The large majority of the Church's parishes are in Transylvania; according to the 2002 census, 701,077 people or 3.15% of the total population belong to the Reformed Church. About 95% of the members were of Hungarian ethnicity.
Restored Reformed Church
The Restored Reformed Church was founded on May 1, 2004, by a minority of the Reformed Bond inside the Dutch Reformed Church ("Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk") who opposed that church's merger with two other Protestant churches into the Protestant Church in the Netherlands ("Protestantse Kerk in Nederland"). The first president of the denomination was Dirk Heemskerk. Later several free churches joined this new federation in Rotterdam, Alblasserdam, Schiedam, Waddinxveen and an Old Reformed Church voted to affiliate with Restored Reformed Church. Many congregations have their own church buildings, but several churches meet in storehouses and schools. In the towns of Elspeet, Sommelsdijk, Sint-Annaland, Putten Restored Reformed congregations have new buildings and others are preparing for this. In 2014, the Church had a membership of 58,821 in 118 congregations. The church has established the Reformed Seminary which in 2011 had seventy students; the rector is Wim van Vlastuin.
Reformed Episcopal Church
The church does not ordain women as bishops, presbyters, or deacons. In 2002, the denomination approved a canon that provides for the "setting apart" of qualified women as deaconesses who are not considered by the church to be ordained. While they are not considered ordained they do have important functions within the ministry of the church. Canon 22 states, "The duty of the Deaconess is to assist the Minister in the care of the poor and sick, the religious training of the young and others, and the work of moral reformation." Deaconesses in the Reformed Episcopal Church may have liturgical responsibilities; however they do not have eucharistic responsibilities beyond that allowed to any other member of the laity.
Some conservative Anglicans, especially those within the Continuing Anglican churches, have criticized the REC for uniting with the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) since certain ACNA dioceses ordain women to Holy Orders. While only a few dioceses ordain women to the priesthood, there are more that ordain women to the diaconate.
Reformed Church of the Faith in Congo
The Reformed Church of the Faith (Eglise Reforme de la Foi in French) was founded in 1993 and has grown from a group of four churches to 64 churches with over 5,000 members. This Reformed denomination is located primarily in the southern, Shaba region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire. Rev. Mfumwabana N'Kulu has been instrumental in the founding and growth of this Reformed denomination.
Reformed Episcopal Seminary
As of 2015, the Seminary has 28 students.
Polish Reformed Church
The number of members was estimated to be at 5000, or nearly 1/6 the 1939 number. Still, it was dropping even more, as the German and Czech Reformed were emigrating from Poland. Old Reformed churches in West Poland were taken over by the Catholics who refused to give them back; the lack of pastors was acute till the end of the 1950s. Some Polish Reformed stayed in the West rather than come back to a Communist regime and formed the London Reformed Polish Church, that existed till 1991.
Episcopal Church (United States)
According to ARIS/Barna, 3.5 million Americans self–identified as Episcopalians, highlighting "a gap between those who are affiliated with the church (on membership rolls), versus those who self-identify [as Episcopalians]". Church Pension Group also cited having 3.5 million adherents in 2002. More recently, in 2014, Pew Research found that approximately 1.2 percent of 245 million U.S adults, around 3 million people, self–identified as mainline Episcopalian/Anglican.
Reformed Ecumenical Council
After a two-day meeting ending on 1 February 2006, Douwe Visser, president of the REC and Clifton Kirkpatrick, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, said in a joint letter to their constituencies, "We rejoice in the work of the Holy Spirit which we believe has led us to recommend that the time has come to bring together the work of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and the Reformed Ecumenical Council into one body that will strengthen the unity and witness of Reformed Christians." The new body would be called the World Communion of Reformed Churches.
Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod
In 1975, the RPCES collaborated with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, the Presbyterian Church in America and the Christian Reformed Church in North America in forming a fellowship of Presbyterian churches known as the North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council (NAPARC), an alliance of conservative Reformed denominations in the U.S, as an alternative to both the liberal National Council of Churches and the National Association of Evangelicals, a more broadly based conservative group encompassing theologies considered objectionable by Reformed devotees, namely Arminianism.
Almost all United Presbyterian Church of North America-heritage congregations - which was more conservative than the PC-USA - entered into the present Presbyterian Church (USA) (which succeeded the UPCUSA in 1983), but some of more evangelical conservative orientation departed in the 1970s to denominations such as the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod later the Presbyterian Church in America and the EPC.
In 1979, the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America ruled that all congregations must elect both men and women to the office of ruling elder. The ruling resulted in an exodus of approximately forty congregations, including Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, Tenth and with many others affiliated with the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod.
Reformed Episcopal Church
The REC is a founding member of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), and its four U.S. dioceses are member dioceses of ACNA. REC and ACNA are not members of the Anglican Communion. REC is in communion with the Free Church of England, the Church of Nigeria, and the Anglican Province of America.
Episcopal Church (United States)
In the 1970s, a "Fortune" magazine study found one-in-five of the country's largest businesses and one-in-three of its largest banks was run by an Episcopalian. Numbers of the most wealthy and affluent American families as the Vanderbilts, Astors, Whitneys, Morgans and Harrimans are Episcopalians. The Episcopal Church also has the highest number of graduate and post-graduate degrees per capita (56%) of any other Christian denomination in the United States, as well as the most high-income earners. According to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center, Episcopalians ranked as the third wealthiest religious group in the United States, with 35% of Episcopalians living in households with incomes of at least $100,000.
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
In 2006, there were an estimated 850,000 members in 3,500 churches.
Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Vaud
In 2004 the church had 481,551 members and 158 congregations, served by 158 pastors.
Nigeria Reformed Church
The Nigeria Reformed Church was a mission project of the Reformed Congregations in the Netherlands. The work was started in 1970. In 2000 the denomination had 1,911 members. The church operates in the Izi tribe, comprising about a half million members in the north of Anambra state. The first mission point was opened on 28 August 1977. Over the years missionary congregations created and instituted. In April 1988 the federation was instituted with 17 ministers and 8 deacons served the church. Since then it become independent.
In 2011 the church had 2,500 members in 14 local congregations, 6 mission district in 4 Classis. The church served 9 pastors and 26 evangelists. Currently there are two missionaries working in Nigeria. The Heidelberg Catechism, the Canons of Dort and the Belgic Confession are the official standards.
Christian Reformed Church in North America
The CRC was a charter member of the Reformed Ecumenical Council, which organized at Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1946. The CRC joined the World Alliance of Reformed Churches in 2002 after many years of hesitation due to what was seen as the more liberal membership and agenda of that body. In 2010, the Reformed Ecumenical Council and World Alliance of Reformed Churches merged to form the World Communion of Reformed Churches at a joint meeting hosted by the CRC in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The CRC also belongs to the Canadian Council of Churches, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, the World Reformed Fellowship, and the National Association of Evangelicals. The CRC participates in Christian Churches Together in the United States and in the Global Christian Forum.
List of Reformed denominations
In 2001, more than 1.6 million people in Hungary identified as members of the Hungarian Reformed Church. Of that number, about 600,000 are considered active members, in 1,249 congregations. The HRC has 27 presbyteries, four districts and a General Synod. In Romania, 700,000 people identified as Reformed in 800 congregations, nearly all of them ethnic Hungarians living in Transylvania.
Reformed Presbyterian Church in Paraguay
The Reformed Presbyterian Church in Paraguay was established by Korean missionaries. It came into existence in 1975, when Pastor Seung Yong Kim came to Asunción. It was first called the Iglesia Presbiteriana Asunción de los Coreanos. In 1986, other Korean missionaries arrived and the Reformed Presbyterian mission came into existence. A theological seminary came into existence. It is affiliated with the Korean American Presbyterian Church. It has 2,500 members in two parishes and 21 prayer stations. The Westminster Confession of Faith is the official confession. There is no women ordination.
Christian Reformed Church in the Philippines
The church was organised by missionaries Vince and Lucy Apostol of the Christian Reformed Church in North America. The mission started in 1962 when the Christian Reformed World Mission begun planting churches in Negros Island. In 1976 the denomination was officially organized with three congregations. By the 1990s the church had 20 congregations and mission churches. Churches were organised into five classes. A synod was formed in 1983. By 1990 it had grown to 25 organized churches and 20 church plants. Now the church has over 50 congregations and 5,000 members.
Reformed Episcopal Church
At its founding in 1873, the REC designated its clergy as presbyters, pastors, and ministers, but not as "priests", and the word "priest" was expunged from the REC's "Book of Common Prayer" in favor of the word "minister". This usage reflected the terminology used in the Cranmerian 1552 "Book of Common Prayer".
Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton Freiburg
The Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton Freiburg is a cantonal Reformed state church in Fribourg.
In 2004 it had 16 parishes and 38,000 members, served by 35 ministers. It was officially organised in 1530, the official languages are French and German. From the parishes 3 are dual languages, 5 are French and 8 are German language worship.
Reformed Church in Mozambique
It had 70,000 members, existing in all provinces of Mozambique. It has about 20 Presbyteries and 3 synods, meeting in every second years.
Calvinism
Reformed churches may exercise several forms of ecclesiastical polity; most are presbyterian or congregationalist, though some are episcopalian. Calvinism is largely represented by Continental Reformed, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist traditions. The biggest Reformed association is the World Communion of Reformed Churches with more than 100 million members in 211 member denominations around the world. There are more conservative Reformed federations such as the World Reformed Fellowship and the International Conference of Reformed Churches, as well as independent churches.
List of Reformed denominations
According to the census of 2001, more than 3.2 million people recorded themselves as Reformed. This however is fast decline compared to the 1996 census, when still 3.9 million people were Reformed. Particularly amongst black and coloured people the Reformed churches lost many members, while the number of Reformed whites remained status quo due to mass emigration.
Swiss Reformed Church
Since 1920, the Swiss Reformed Churches have been organized in 26 member churches of the Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches. According to the Federal Statistical Office, 23.8% of the Swiss population aged 15 and above were reported as registered members of a Reformed cantonal church in 2017.
Reformed Church of Christ in Nigeria
The Reformed Church of Christ in Nigeria was formed in 1973 when a split occurred in the Christian Reformed Church of Nigeria. It consists of people of the Kuteb tribe, through multi-ethnic ministry is being pursued in other areas. In 1979 the church was officially recognised by the Nigerian government. In 1993 the church changed its name from Church of Christ in Nigeria to the current name. Since 1973 the church is growing rapidly. The denomination has about 500,000 members in hundreds of congregation and house fellowships.Ministers and officers are men only.
Protestant Reformed Churches in America
The Protestant Reformed Churches grew rapidly in the following years, but in the 1950s the denomination struggled because of internal, doctrinal controversies in defense of the unconditionality of the Covenant of Grace. Hubert DeWolf, who had become the pastor of the First Protestant Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, was influenced by the theology of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated), this included conditional theology. DeWolf begun to preach sermons which promoted conditional theology, because he saw the ever increasing number of immigrants that were part of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated) in the Netherlands, and he believed that this could be an opportunity to grow the church. Hoeksema saw this as heresy and insisted that salvation is only for the elect, even the baptized children of believers, who were not elect could not receive salvation. DeWolf and his supporters were suspended in 1953. That year 60% of the denomination membership, the so-called "DeWolf Group" formed the Orthodox Protestant Reformed Church (OPRC). Before the schism the denomination had 6,063 members(1953)-the PRC has passed this membership mark as of 1994. The remaining 40% continued as the Protestant Reformed Church with 2,353 members. DeWolf worked for the reunion of the CRCNA. The union took place in 1961, 7 OPRC congregations were dissolved, with their members joining other Christian Reformed congregations, and four became part of the CRCNA denomination-Hope CRC in Hull, Iowa, Alamo Ave CRC in Kalamazoo, MI, Bethel CRC in Redlands, CA and Faith CRC in Grand Rapids, MI.
Reformed Episcopal Church
Under the current canons of the Reformed Episcopal Church, a non-REC minister entering into the REC ministry as a deacon or presbyter is to receive Holy Orders if he has not already been ordained by a bishop recognized by REC as in the historic succession. If previously ordained in a non-episcopal church, the applicant to the REC may need to be regularized.
Reformed Episcopal Church
The founding of the Reformed Episcopal Church followed an 1873 controversy about ecumenical activity. In October of that year, Bishop Cummins joined with Dean Smith of Canterbury, William Augustus Muhlenberg, and some non-Anglican ministers at an ecumenical conference of the Evangelical Alliance for the United States of America. During the conference, held in New York City, Cummins, Smith and the non-Episcopalian ministers presided at joint services of Holy Communion without using any version of the "Book of Common Prayer". Retired missionary bishop, William Tozer, who was visiting New York at the time, criticized Smith and implicitly Cummins for participating in the rite. Tozer's criticism appeared in a letter published by the New York "Tribune" on October 6, 1873.
Reformed Presbyterian Church in Ethiopia
The Ethiopian Grace Reformed Church was established in 1998 as part of the Ethiopian Presbyterian Church. At the beginnings there were only 7 believers. Most of them were members of the traditional Ethiopian Orthodox Churches. There were 4 ordained pastors in 2008 who were studied in the United States. It has several outreaches in church planting efforts among Muslims, including Addis Ababa.
Episcopal Church (United States)
By the middle of the 19th century, evangelical Episcopalians disturbed by High Church Tractarianism, while continuing to work in interdenominational agencies, formed their own voluntary societies, and eventually, in 1874, a faction objecting to the revival of ritual practices established the Reformed Episcopal Church.
Association of Reformed Evangelical Church of Burkina Faso
The church has 40,000 members and 40 congregations and 18 house fellowships. The Reformed Evangelical Church subscribes the Apostles Creed, Nicene Creed and the Heidelberg Catechism. Member of the World Communion of Reformed Churches.
United Reformed Church
The United Reformed Church (URC) is a Protestant Christian church in the United Kingdom. It has approximately 56,000 members in 1,400 congregations with 608 active ministers, including 13 church related community workers.
Reformed Episcopal Seminary
The seminary further describes itself as Evangelical, Catholic, Reformed, Ecumenical and Episcopal, defining the terms this way:The seminary's first location was at the corner of 43rd and Chestnut streets in West Philadelphia alongside the magnificent Christ Memorial Church (pictured at right.) Currently the seminary is in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. It consists of three buildings, including one dorm house for students. Also resident on campus are the offices of the Reformed Episcopal diocese of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic and it's Committee on Young People's Work.
Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America
As of 31 December 2007, the RPCNA had 6,334 members in 75 North American congregations, along with 238 more members in four congregations in Japan. By 2016 communicant membership had risen to 7,076. The "stronghold" areas of the denomination are in northeastern Kansas, central Indiana, and western Pennsylvania. The denomination sponsors Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania (all members of the Board of Corporators are required to be Reformed Presbyterians) and operates the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The denomination holds a week-long International Conference every four years; the most recent was held in July 2016 at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana. A denominational magazine, the "Reformed Presbyterian Witness", is published monthly.
St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Put-in-Bay, Ohio)
20 June 1869 – Church members voted to withdraw from the Episcopal Church and formed themselves as a Congregational Church but continued to worship using the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. This decision was related to their rector's attraction to the theology and doctrine of Bishop Cummings (An Episcopalian who would go on to create the Reformed Episcopal Church in 1873).
List of bishops of the Reformed Episcopal Church
These are the early bishops of the Reformed Episcopal Church from its founding in 1873 to 1902:
Reformed Christian Church in Slovakia
After the collapse of communism the church adopted a new constitution. The church runs 5 primary schools 2 secondary schools and 1 kindergarten.The church had 110,000 members and 204 parishes and 103 congregations and 54 mission churches in 2001 an increase of 25,000 since 1991. Hungarian speaking members are about 95,000–100,000, the church has 225 active pastors, 200 are Hungarian speaking.
Reformed Episcopal Church
The term regeneration has been used differently throughout the church's history, and the objection of the Reformed Episcopal Church's founders was based on the definition of the "new birth" then current amongst Evangelicals. If regeneration is an instantaneous work of the Spirit quickening the heart prior to conversion, a gift from God given only to His elect, then the language of baptismal regeneration would suggest that all the baptized are finally saved. It is for this reason that the Declaration of Principles denies that regeneration is inseparably connected with baptism. This of course has been an important issue for the REC since its founding. According to Guelzo, in his book, "For the Union of Evangelical Christendom" Cummins said, "the regeneration for which we thank God in baptism is not to be taken in any sense as descriptive of the renewing work of the Holy Spirit upon the heart, but only a term equivalent to baptism, a sacramental change, a change of covenant relation."
Reformed Episcopal Church
The founders of the Reformed Episcopal Church professed a faith rooted in the English Reformation, regarding the Holy Scripture as the Word of God, and accepting the authority of the Nicene, Apostles' and Athanasian Creeds, the first four ecumenical councils, the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion (in the form published in 1801 by the Protestant Episcopal Church), and the "Declaration of Principles of the Reformed Episcopal Church".
Reformed Episcopal Church
The REC in North America has been in full communion with the Free Church of England since 1927, when Reformed Episcopal congregations and clergy in England merged with the FCE. Bishops of the two churches take part in episcopal consecrations of the other, and there are periodic visits between them. On occasion REC clergy have served in FCE parishes and vice versa.
List of Reformed denominations
70-75% of Transcarpathian Hungarians are followers of the reformed faith. Transcarpathian Reformed Church has 3 diocese with about 120,000 - 140,000 members.
It maintains schools and this church is the oldest Protestant community in Ukraine established in the 16th century.
A member of the World Communion of Reformed Churches.
This church was started by missionaries of the Presbyterian Church in America and has 12 congregations and missions with 11 ordained national pastors; it maintains a Reformed seminary in Kiev.
Most Presbyterian denominations share same name, the Presbyteian Church in Korea, tracing back their history to the United Presbyterian Assembly. There are 15 million Protestants in South Korea, about 9 millions are Presbyterians and there are more than 100 Presbyterian denominations. Before the Korean War Presbyterians were very strong in North Korea, many fled to South, and established their own Presbyterian denominations. The Presbyterian Churches are by far the largest Protestant churches with well over 20 000 congregations. For more information see Presbyterianism in South Korea.
(source: reformiert-online)The various Reformed churches of Nigeria formed the Reformed Ecumenical Council of Nigeria in 1991 to further cooperation.
Episcopal Church (United States)
The Episcopal Church experienced notable growth in the first half of the 20th century, but like many mainline churches, it has had a decline in membership in more recent decades. Membership grew from 1.1 million members in 1925 to a peak of over 3.4 million members in the mid-1960s. Between 1970 and 1990, membership declined from about 3.2 million to about 2.4 million. Once changes in how membership is counted are taken into consideration, the Episcopal Church's membership numbers were broadly flat throughout the 1990s, with a slight growth in the first years of the 21st century. A loss of 115,000 members was reported for the years 2003–05. Some theories about the decline in membership include a failure to sufficiently reach beyond ethnic barriers in an increasingly diverse society, and the low fertility rates prevailing among the predominant ethnic groups traditionally belonging to the church. In 1965, there were 880,000 children in Episcopal Sunday School programs. By 2001, the number had declined to 297,000.
Episcopal Church (United States)
Differences over social issues led to the formation of the Anglican Church in North America which has over 1,000 parishes and has grown to over 134,000 members. Episcopal Church leaders, particularly former Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, responded by taking a firm stance against the separatists, initiating litigation against departing dioceses and parishes that has cost all parties tens of millions of dollars; one estimate has the Episcopal Church spending over $42 million and separatists roughly $18 million, for a total of over $60 million in court costs. Litigation has largely centered around church properties, with the Episcopal leadership asserting ownership of buildings occupied by departing congregations.
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
in 1870, most of the remaining African-American members of the MEC,S split off on friendly terms with white colleagues to form the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, now the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, taking with them $1.5 million in buildings and properties. The new denomination avoided the Republican politics of the AME and AME Zion congregations. It had more than 3,000 churches, more than 1,200 traveling preachers, 2,500 church-based preachers, about 140,000 members, and held 22 annual conferences, presided over by four bishops.
George David Cummins
George David Cummins (December 11, 1822 – June 26, 1876) was an American Anglican Bishop and founder of the Reformed Episcopal Church.
Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Lucerne
In 2004 it had 43,000 members, 18 parishes and 35 ordained clergy. It has Presbyterian-Synodal church government. Congregations are founded in Aesch, Adligenswil, Alberswil, Altishofen, Altwis, Baldegg, Ballwil, Beromünster, Bramboden, Buchrain, Buchs, Büron, Buttisholtz, Dagmersellen, Dierikon, Doppleschwand, Ebersecken, Ebikon, Egolzwil, Eich, Emmen, Entlebuch, Ermensee, Ecshenbach, Escholzmatt, Ettiswil, Fischbach, Flühli, Geiss, Gelfingen, Gettnau, Geuensee, Gisikon, Greppen, Grossdietwil, Grosswangen, Gunzwil, Hamikon, Hasle, Heiligkreuz, Hergiswil, Herlisberg, Hertenstein, Hildisrieden, Hitzkirch, Hochdorf, Hohenrain, Honau, Horw, Inwil, Kleinwangen, Knutwil, Knottwil, Kriens, Kulmerau, Lieli, Luzern, Littau, Luthern, Malters, Marbach, Mauensee, Meggen, Meierskappen, Menznau, Mosen, Nebikon, Neudorf, Nottwil, Oberkirch, Ohmstahl, Pfaffnau, Retcshwil, Rickenbach, Root, Romoos, Ruswil, Schenkon, Schötz, St. Erhardt, Sulz, Sursee, Triengen, Uffikon, Ufhusen, Vitznau, Wauwil, Weggis, Werthenstein, Wiggen, Wikon, Wilihof, Wolhusen, Zell.
List of Christian denominations
Reformed Protestantism, also known as the Reformed tradition, or more commonly Calvinism, is a movement which broke from the Catholic Church in the 16th century. There are from 55-100 million Christians identifying as Reformers.
Reformed Episcopal Church
The Theological Seminary of the Reformed Episcopal Church, otherwise known as Reformed Episcopal Seminary, is the largest and oldest of the seminaries of the Reformed Episcopal Church and is accredited by the Association of Theological Schools. It began offering classes in 1886 in West Philadelphia and was chartered in 1887. Now located in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, it offers Master of Divinity (MDiv), a Certificate in Bible and Theology, and a Licentiate in Diaconal or Deaconess Ministry.
Episcopal Missionary Church
The Episcopal Missionary Church (EMC) is a Continuing Anglican church body in the United States and a member of the Federation of Anglican Churches in the Americas. Its founding in the early 1990s can be traced to the protests of members of The Episcopal Church who were concerned that their church had become massively influenced by secular humanism (i.e., liberal theologies). At first, these clergy and laymen sought to change the direction of their church by working from within it, to which end they formed a voluntary association, the Episcopal Synod of America.
Reformed Alliance
The Reformed Alliance () in Germany is a Reformed federation, currently it has 430 congregations and 750 individual members. An estimated 2,000,000 Reformed Christians are in Germany. The moderator is D. Peter Bukowski. It traces back its history to John Calvin and Ulrich Zwingli.
Reformed Episcopal Church
Seminaries:
Evangelical and Reformed Church
In 1957, the Evangelical and Reformed Church joined with the General Council of Congregational Christian Churches to form the UCC. The Rev. James Wagner was the last president of the denomination. Upon the union on June 25 of that year, he became, along with former Congregational Christian general minister Fred Hoskins, a co-president of the UCC. He and Hoskins held these positions until 1961, when the UCC constitution was ratified by the Evangelical and Reformed synods and the requisite percentage of CC congregations. About 40 percent of the members in the new denomination were members of the E&R Church.
Christian Reformed Church in El Salvador
The Christian Reformed Church in El Salvador created the missionaries of the Christian Reformed Church in North America in 1978.
El Salvador suffered unrest, and this time the denomination suffered a split, the Christian and Reformed Church in El Salvador was formed. It diminished to a small size, but it's very active. The Reformed Church has 2 congregations and 600 members, and adheres to the Apostles Creed, Belgic Confession, Heidelberg Catechism and the Canons of Dort.
One of these churches is the Christian Reformed Church in Santa Recla, it is in a short distance from the capital city of El Salvador. After the civil war just this and another church survived.
Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Ukraine
It's a little-known fact that the Reformation came this far eastward, approximately 100 Reformed churches existed between 1570 - 1590. In the 1930s Canadian-Ukrainian missionaries revitalized the Reformed faith in Western Ukraine which was then part of Poland. Separate German Reformed and Lutheran communities - the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg and Helvetic Confession - joined the "Union of Reformed Communities". Before the invasion of the Red Army, there were 35 churches in 5 districts and approximately 3,000 members in cities like Kolomyia, Lviv, Rivne, Przemyśl, Stepan. The Ukrainian Evangelical Reformed Church had 18 ordained pastors. After World War II the Communist regime destroyed much of this work.
Reformed Episcopal Seminary
The seminary trains clergy candidates for the Reformed Episcopal Church, the Anglican Church in North America, and churches of many other traditions. Clergy are educated in a belief in the primacy and final authority of the Bible and educated about the sacraments, creeds, councils, and the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion.
Diocese of the Southeast (Reformed Episcopal Church)
In December 1874, in a convention held in Pinopolis, with members of four parishes, after the rejection of four black men from the ministry by the Protestant Episcopal Church, it was decided to leave the Diocese of South Carolina and to seek membership with the newly created Reformed Episcopal Church. In the same convention, Frank Crawford Ferguson was elected President and wrote to the Presiding Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church, George Cummins. In June 1875, he received a letter by Benjamin Johnson, explaining that he had been sent by the General Council of the REC to receive all the black people willing to join the denomination. The new body would be the Missionary Jurisdiction of the South, named Diocese of the Southeast when the division into dioceses was adopted in 1984.
Christian Reformed Church in North America
The Christian Reformed Church has three levels of assembly: the church council (local assembly, composed of a congregation's deacons, elders, and ministerial staff), the classis (regional assembly, of which there are 48: 37 in the United States and 12 in Canada, with one straddling the international border), and the synod (bi-national assembly.) The church's Synod meets annually in June, with 192 delegates: a minister, an elder and a deacon from each classis, plus one other officebearer.
Reformed Christian Church in Serbia
The Reformed Christian Church in Serbia had 17,000 members in almost 50 congregations composed in 2 Presbyteries, served by 19 pastors in 2006. The headquarters of the church is Feketić (Bácsfeketehegy in Hungarian). The bishop is István Csete szemesi.
Reformed Church in Africa (South Africa)
The Reformed Church in Africa, South Africa (RCA) is a Reformed Calvinist denomination which works primarily among the Indian community in South Africa. It has about 800,000 members, although it is open to all people. Most of its members are ethnically Indian converts from Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism or no religion.
Reformed Church in Sub-Carpathia/ Reformed Church in Transcarpathia
The church was founded in 1921 when this region become part of Czechoslovakia. The church members were Hungarian ethnic people; in the time of formation their church counted approximately 65,000 members in 77 congregations. During World War II the Soviet troops deported 40,000 people from Sub-Carpathia. Transcarpathia as Zakarpattia Oblast became part of the Soviet Union. Pastors from different religions were persecuted and sometimes killed. Church schools, church buildings were taken away. It was restricted to evangelize to worship and the Sunday school too. Public church activities were not permitted, except for funerals. The Soviet Union propagated a totally atheist lifestyle.
In the 1970s the situation changed a bit. The church was allowed to train pastors. After the collapse of the Soviet Union things changed.
From that time the church sponsors Reformed Primary, secondary schools. Churches were open again.The church has 120,000-140,000 members in almost 100 parishes. A significant part of ethnic Hungarians in Transcarpathia belong to this church. The Reformed Church in Transcarpathia has 3 Presbyteries, namely the Beregi, the Ugocsai and the Ungi Presbyteries.
Episcopal Diocese of Chicago
The Diocese of Chicago ranks among the twelve largest Episcopal dioceses in the United States, with 137 congregations, of which 36 are missions. However, in parallel with declining national memberships, the Diocese of Chicago has seen a decline in membership: 47,171 baptized members in 1994, but only 42,667 in 1996. As of 2011 the diocese website said it had 40,000 members.
National Union of Independent Reformed Evangelical Churches of France
The National Union of Protestant Reformed Evangelical Churches of France (French: "Union nationale des Églises protestantes réformées évangéliques de France", abbr. "UNEPREF"), better known as the Evangelical Reformed Churches of France, is a Reformed denomination in France. It has currently around 10,600 members spread over 68 churches, predominant in the Paris area, the southwest, and the southeast of France.
Protestant Reformed Churches in America
The Protestant Reformed Churches in America (PRC) or (PRCA) is a Protestant denomination of 33 churches and over 8,000 members.
United Reformed Church in Congo
The Church was formed thanks to a broadcasting program by Rev. Aron R. Kayayan in the late 1970s supported by the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa and the Christian Reformed Church in North America. He was the director of a reformed radio broadcasting program. This was the Perspectives Reformees a French language radio broadcast, assuming the organisation of Back to God Hour of the Christian Reformed Church in North America. The French language radio programs was listened to by many people in Africa, in Haiti and in many Caribbean Islands. In Africa lots of Bible study started under the influence of the program. Kayayan preaching initiated the formation of a new denomination. The Eglise Reformee Confessante au Congo - the Confessional Reformed Church in Congo in English - was formed in 1983. The church changed its name to United Reformed Church, and adopted the Three Forms of Unity as their standard, and a Presbyterian-Synodal church government form. It was registered by the government on February 17, 2010. Exact number of membership was unknown it had 150 congregations and 10–12,000 members in the early 2000s.
The church order is a French adaptation of the Christian Reformed Church in North America's Book of Church Order.
List of Reformed denominations
A total of 2.4 million Swiss are members of a Reformed church, according to the 2000 census, which corresponds with 33% of the population. The past decades show a rapid decline in this proportion, coming from 46% in 1970.
Reformed Churches of New Zealand
Reformed Churches of New Zealand is a Reformed Christian denomination in New Zealand. The denomination is constituted of 21 member churches, the first seven of which were formed in 1953. Total membership as of 2011 stands at 3,291.
World Alliance of Reformed Churches
On 1 February 2006, Clifton Kirkpatrick, president of the WARC, and Douwe Visser, president of the Reformed Ecumenical Council (REC), said in a joint letter, "We rejoice in the work of the Holy Spirit which we believe has led us to recommend that the time has come to bring together the work of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and the Reformed Ecumenical Council into one body that will strengthen the unity and witness of Reformed Christians." The resulting new organisation is the World Communion of Reformed Churches.
Restored Reformed Church
In 2004/2005 the Restored Reformed Church had 53,900 members. In 2014 there were 58,821 members in the Netherlands and in Ontario, Canada.