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The Catholic Church in Canada, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, has the largest number of adherents to a religion in Canada, with 38.7% of Canadians (13.07 million) reported as Catholics in the 2011 National Household Survey, in 72 dioceses across the provinces and territories, served ...
The United Church was founded in 1925 as a merger of four Protestant denominations with a total combined membership of about 600,000 members: [4] the Methodist Church, Canada, the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec, two-thirds of the congregations of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, and the Association of Local Union Churches, a ...
The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Canada has its origins in a church founded in 1811 in Charlottetown by a Scottish immigrant. [1] It was officially founded in 1922. [2] It became a region of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in USA in 1968. [3] According to a denomination census released in 2020, it claimed 21 member ...
The oldest Christian Disciples Church in Canada was founded in 1810 by John R. Stewart, an immigrant from Perthshire, Scotland. The first Meeting House (Cross Roads Christian Church) was a log cabin built in 1813.
The United Church of Canada is the largest Protestant group in Canada, with 2011 estimates suggesting the membership of just over 2 million. [2] Officially formed in 1925, the United Church of Canada is the amalgamation of almost all of Canada's Congregationalists and Methodists and most of Canada's Presbyterians, and many Christian ...
In response to the growing theological liberalism of the United Church of Canada, and following (in particular) its 1988 decision to ordain non-celibate gay people to the ministry, a group of conscientious objectors left the denomination and began looking for ways in which to cultivate their evangelical Christian faith, and to affiliate with ...
A History of the Catholic Church in Eastern Nova Scotia; Volume I: 1611- 1827 (1960) Johnston, A.B.J. Life and Religion at Louisbourg, 1713–1758 (MGill-Queen's University Press, 1996) Lahey, Raymond J. The First Thousand Years: A Brief History of the Catholic Church in Canada (2002) Laverdure, Paul.
Canadian Pentecostals: A History of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada. Mississauga, Ontario: Full Gospel Publishing House. ISBN 1-895168-35-X. Rudd, Douglas (2002). When the Spirit Came Upon Them: Highlights from the Early Years of the Pentecostal Movement in Canada. Mississauga, Ontario: Full Gospel Publishing House. ISBN 1-894325-24-9.