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The Canadian Council of Churches (French: Conseil canadien des Églises) is a broad and inclusive ecumenical body, now representing 26 member churches including Anglican; Eastern and Roman Catholic; Evangelical; Free Church; Eastern and Oriental Orthodox; and Historic Protestant traditions. Together these member churches represent 13,500 ...
Beginning in 1989, a series of consultations, discussions, proposals, and sessions led to the unification of two North American bodies (the Mennonite Church & General Conference Mennonite Church) and the related Canadian Conference of Mennonites in Canada into the Mennonite Church USA and the Mennonite Church Canada in 2002. [2]
The Associated Gospel Churches, commonly known as AGC, is a Canadian evangelical Christian denomination. It is affiliated with the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada. The national headquarters are located in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
General Council, the church's highest legislative court, was elected and met every three years. In 2019 the church moved to a three-council model: [ 36 ] communities of faith, which will include all pastoral charges, congregations, and other groups who gather regularly for worship.
The Canadian and American Reformed Churches (CanRC) is a federation of Protestant Reformed churches in Canada and the United States, with historical roots in the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands. CanRC emphasizes the importance of adherence to Biblical, covenantal , redemptive-historical preaching within the Reformed Christian tradition, as ...
Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches. National Council of Churches. Terrence Murphy; Roberto Perin (1996). A concise history of Christianity in Canada. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-540758-7. Mark A. Noll (1992). A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada. Grand Rapids, Mi: Eerdmans Publ. Mark A. Noll (2007).
The Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada was formed in 1905-1906 as the United Baptist Convention of the Maritimes by a union of Free, or Free Will Baptists and Calvinistic or Regular Baptists. [2] The Regular Baptist and Free Will Baptist congregations wrote a statement of faith and polity called the "Basis of Union" with which both groups ...
The first Canadian synods were established in the 1850s, giving the Canadian church a degree of self-government. As a result of the UK Privy Council decision of Long v. Gray in 1861, all Anglican churches in colonies of the British Empire became self-governing. Even so, the first General Synod for all of Canada was not held until 1893.