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The church was founded in February 1929 when two Presbyterian churches in Erie, PA, Park and Central Presbyterian Churches, merged. [1] The merger was approved by the Presbytery of Lake Erie on February 8, 1929 and construction was begun on a new church building along West Sixth Street in downtown Erie.
In 1983 the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod (RPCES) merged with the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). A group of churches in the PCA's Georgia Presbytery later objected to the way the merged denomination made its decisions. These churches separated from the PCA and formed the Presbytery of the Covenant. [6]
Carl August Björk (27 July 1837 – 29 October 1916) was a Swedish missionary preacher in the Midwestern United States. He was the founder of the Mission Friends – some of which later developed into the Evangelical Covenant Church, a Radical Pietistic Christian denomination with Lutheran roots, which he played a key role in founding.
The centerpiece of the new shrine was a church building designed by the Polish-American architect George Szeptycki housing the replica of the Black Madonna painting. Cardinal Karol Wojtyla , the future Pope John Paul II, visited twice: first in 1969 and then in 1976, while attending the Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia.
The Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) is an evangelical denomination with Pietist Lutheran roots. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 4 ] The denomination has 129,015 members in 878 congregations and an average worship attendance of 219,000 people [ 5 ] in the United States and Canada with ministries on five continents.
Doylestown is a borough in and the county seat of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.As of the 2020 census, the borough population was 8,300.. Doylestown is located 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Trenton, 25 miles (40 km) north of Center City Philadelphia, and 27 miles (43 km) southeast of Allentown.
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Church of the Covenant (Manhattan), a Protestant church and mixed architectural styles building in New York City, associated with J. Cleveland Cady; Church of the Covenant (Cleveland), a historic neo-gothic Presbyterian church in Ohio; Church of the Covenant (Pennsylvania), a Presbyterian church in Washington, Pennsylvania