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The Congregational Christian Churches was a Protestant Christian denomination that operated in the U.S. from 1931 through 1957. On the latter date, most of its churches joined the Evangelical and Reformed Church in a merger to become the United Church of Christ. [1] Others created the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches or ...
The United Church of Christ (UCC) is a socially liberal mainline Protestant Christian denomination based in the United States, with historical and confessional roots in the Congregational, Restorationist, Continental Reformed, and Lutheran traditions, and with approximately 4,600 churches and 712,000 members. [2][3] The UCC is a historical ...
About 90% of the CC congregations affiliated with the General Council joined the United Church of Christ. [citation needed] Some churches abstained from the merger, while others voted it down. Most of the latter congregations became members of either the CCCC (mentioned above) or the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches ...
Founded in 1882 as Billings' first church of any Christian denomination, the initial building was funded by Frederick Billings, for whom the city is named. First Congregational is the oldest church in the UCC's Montana–Northern Wyoming Conference and was historically known as the conference's unofficial "cathedral church."
Congregationalism is a Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestant Christianity that enjoins a church polity in which congregations are self-governing (cf. congregational polity). [2] Through the years, Congregationalists have adopted various confessional statements, including the Savoy Declaration, the Cambridge Platform and the Kansas City ...
The National Association of Congregational Christian Churches (NACCC) is an association of 304 churches [2] providing fellowship for and services to churches from the Congregational tradition. The Association maintains its national office in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee. The body was founded in 1955 by former clergy and laypeople ...
The Evangelical Association of Reformed and Congregational Christian Churches is an evangelical protestant denomination in the United States. [4] It began as a fellowship of churches disaffected from the United Church of Christ [5] due to that denomination's liberal theology. [6] Churches of the Evangelical Association are free to hold dual ...
April 26, 1978. Westminster United Church of Christ, originally the First Congregational Church, is a historic church in the Cliff/Cannon neighborhood of Spokane, Washington. It is affiliated with the United Church of Christ. The current building was built in 1890 in a Richardsonian Romanesque style and enlarged in 1927 to include larger towers ...