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A united church, also called a uniting church, is a church formed from the merger or other form of church union of two or more different Protestant Christian denominations.
The International Conference of Reformed Churches (ICRC) is a federation of Reformed or Calvinist churches around the world. The ICRC was founded in 1981. The ICRC convenes international meetings every four years. Its theology is more conservative than the larger World Communion of Reformed Churches and is similar to that of the World Reformed Fellowship. The participating churches endorse the Reformed confessions. Moderator of the ICRC is Rev. Dr Dick Moes.
The Evangelical Presbyterian Church in England and Wales (EPCEW) is a reformed and conservative evangelical Presbyterian denomination in England and Wales with churches in Germany, Switzerland, and Sweden. Founded in 1996, the denomination is small but growing.
The World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) was a fellowship of more than 200 churches with roots in the 16th-century Reformation, and particularly in the theology of John Calvin. Its headquarters was in Geneva, Switzerland. They are now merged into the World Communion of Reformed Churches.
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The Christian Reformed Churches in the Netherlands is a Protestant church in the Netherlands.
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The World Reformed Fellowship (WRF) is an ecumenical Christian organization which promotes unity between confessional Calvinist churches around the world.
The Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated) are an orthodox Calvinist federation of churches. This church body arose in 1944 out of the so-called Liberation from the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, when many pastors and members refused to go along with the General Synod's demand to hold to "presumed regeneration of infants" at their baptism. Klaas Schilder played an important role in the Liberation. There are currently 270 affiliated local congregations with a total of about 120,000 members in 2016.
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- ↑ "European Conference of Reformed Churches" (PDF). Retrieved July 31, 2020.
- ↑ "Report of the Free Church of Scotland on the European Conference of Reformed Churches" . Retrieved 31 July 2020.
- ↑ "Members of the European Conference of Reformed Churches" . Retrieved July 31, 2020.
- ↑ "International Conference of Reformed Churches suspends Liberated Reformed Churches from membership because the denomination has admitted female ordination" . Retrieved July 31, 2020.
- ↑ "Seminary staff of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Ukraine attend CEIR meetings" . Retrieved July 31, 2020.
- ↑ "Visiting Ukrainian pastors participate in CEIR meetings" . Retrieved July 31, 2020.