Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches

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Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches
Founded1965;60 years ago (1965)
Type Evangelical organization
HeadquartersNo. 62 Molave St., Project 3, Baranggay Duyan-Duyan, Quezon City, Philippines 1102
Region
Philippines
Chairman
Dr. Andrew Liuson
National Director
Bishop Noel A. Pantoja
Affiliations World Evangelical Alliance
Website pcec.org.ph

The Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches (PCEC) is a national evangelical alliance, member of the World Evangelical Alliance. With 89 Christian denominations members, and more than 200 para-church organizations in the Philippines, Evangelicals in the Philippines reportedly have 4,997,669 adherents according to the 2020 Philippine census, making Evangelical Christianity as the third (3rd) largest denomination in the country. [1] [a] The head office is in Quezon City, Philippines.

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History

The PCEC was established by evangelical denominations in 1965. [3]

In 2011, Dr. Cesar Vicente P. Punzalan, Deputy National Director of the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches, estimated that 12% of the population were members of PCEC churches. [4]

The 2015 Philippine census by the Philippine Statistics Authority found that 2.4 percent of the population of 101 million were members of PCEC churches, making it the fourth largest faith group in the Philippines after the Catholic Church (79.5%), Islam (6.0%), and Iglesia ni Cristo; and down from 2.7% in 2010. [5]

As of 2020, it has 78 Christian denominations and 200 member organizations. [6] [7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Religious Affiliation in the Philippines (2020 Census of Population and Housing) - Statistical Tables". Phillipine Statistics Authority.
  2. ↑ Mapa, Dennis S. (February 22, 2023). "Religious Affiliation in the Philippines (2020 Census of Population and Housing)". Philippine Statistics Authority (Press release). Archived from the original on March 10, 2023. Retrieved March 12, 2023.
  3. ↑ Kenneth Ross, Christianity in East and Southeast Asia, Edinburgh University Press, Scotland, 2020, p. 323
  4. ↑ STATE OF THE PHILIPPINE EVANGELICAL CHURCH TODAY: A POSITIVE RESPONSE
  5. ↑ "Philippine Population Surpassed the 100 Million Mark (Results from the 2015 Census of Population) | Philippine Statistics Authority". psa.gov.ph. Philippine Statistics Authority. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  6. ↑ Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches, Members, pcec.org.ph, Philippine, retrieved December 5, 2020
  7. ↑ World Evangelical Alliance, REGIONAL & NATIONAL ALLIANCES, worldevangelicals.org, USA, retrieved December 5, 2020

Notes

  1. ↑ Member churches of the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches (PCEC) have a total of 2,469,957 members according to the 2010 Philippine census, making Evangelical Christianity as the third largest denomination in the Philippines. Evangelical population is also larger than that of the Iglesia ni Cristo or INC (which reportedly had 2,251,941 adherents in 2010). However, the total count was not reflected as member churches were treated separately in the 2020 Philippine census. The total number of adherents for Evangelical and PCEC member churches listed in the 2020 Philippine census would be 4,997,669 or 4.6 percent of the Filipino population. Adherents of member churches of the National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP), meanwhile, total to 2,953,697 for the 2020 Philippine census, or 2.7 percent. This makes the NCCP as the fourth largest denomination in the Philippines after the Evangelicals, and the INC as the fifth largest. [2]
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