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Reformed Church of France | |
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Classification | Protestant |
Orientation | Calvinist |
Polity | Presbyterian |
Associations | World Alliance of Reformed Churches, World Council of Churches, Protestant Federation of France |
Origin | 1559; merged in 2013 with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in France to form the United Protestant Church of France |
Separated from | Catholic Church |
Members | 300,000 at the time of merger |
Official website | https://www.eglise-protestante-unie.fr/ |
The Reformed Church of France (French: Église réformée de France, ERF) was the main Protestant denomination in France with a Calvinist orientation that could be traced back directly to John Calvin. In 2013, the Church merged with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in France to form the United Protestant Church of France.[1]
The church was a member of the Protestant Federation of France (Fédération protestante de France), the World Communion of Reformed Churches and the World Council of Churches.
The church had approximately 300,000 members at the time of merger, distributed in a somewhat unequal fashion throughout French metropolitan territory, with the exception of Alsace-Moselle and the Pays de Montbéliard, as the Protestant Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine brings together most of the local Calvinists there. The church consists of 400 parishes, organised in 50 presbyteries (consistoires) and eight administrative regions.