Bible Knowledge Graph
Reformed Church in America
- Entity ID:
- reformed-church-in-america
- Long Name:
- Reformed Church in America
- Entity Type:
- organization
- Entity Subtype:
- religious
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- Wikipedia
- Summary:
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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. In 1819 it incorporated as the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church. The current name was chosen in 1867.
The RCA is a member of the National Council of Churches (founding member), the World Council of Churches (WCC), Christian Churches Together, and the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC). Some parts of the denomination belong to the National Association of Evangelicals, the Canadian Council of Churches, and the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada. The denomination is in full communion with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Presbyterian Church (USA), and United Church of Christ and is a denominational partner of the Christian Reformed Church in North America.
–New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. IX: Petri - Reuchlin - DB Pedia ID:
- reformed-church-in-america
- Is An Individual:
- No
- Is Published:
- Yes
