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Free Reformed Churches of Australia | |
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![]() The Free Reformed Church at Mundijong, Western Australia | |
Classification | Protestant |
Orientation | Reformed |
Origin | 1951 |
Congregations | 18 |
Members | 5,000 |
Official website | frca |
The Free Reformed Churches of Australia (FRCA) are a federation of 18 congregations, [1] 16 in Western Australia, two in Tasmania and a home-congregation in Cairns. At the start of 2016 the total membership was 4,663. [2] Their historical roots are in the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands (Liberated) as a result of post-World War II immigration, and their doctrinal roots are in the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation and the Bible. The first congregation was in Armadale, Western Australia, founded in 1951. [3]
As a confessional church, the churches subscribe to the Three Forms of Unity: Canons of Dort, Belgic Confession and the Heidelberg Catechism. The churches submit to the following three creeds as summaries of the faith: The Apostles Creed, The Nicene Creed, and The Athanasian Creed.
The FRCA has the following churches [4] in Western Australia, in order of institution:
and the following churches in Tasmania:
The Free Reformed Churches of Australia have sister-church relationships with [6]
A long-standing sister church relation with the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands (Liberated) (Gereformeerde Kerken vrijgemaakt) was terminated [8] at FRCA Synod Bunbury in June 2018.
Their local churches are actively engaged in mission work in several locations in Asia and the Pacific, including Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. They have particularly close ties with the Canadian and American Reformed Churches, and many of their ministers have received their theological training at the Canadian Reformed Theological Seminary.
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