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- ↑ "Member churches | Bringing together 80 million Reformed Christians worldwide". Archived from the original on August 8, 2012. Retrieved August 18, 2013.
- ↑ "Iglesias miembros del CMI — Consejo Mundial de Iglesias" (in Spanish). Oikoumene.org. 2013-03-22. Retrieved 2015-02-28.
- ↑ "Address data base of Reformed churches and institutions". Reformiert-online.net. 2006-02-16. Retrieved 2015-02-28.
