French Evangelical Church Federation
The Federation of French Protestant Churches ( Fédération protestante de France , FPF) is an association of Protestant churches and church unions. It was founded on October 25, 1905, the year the Church and State Separation Act was passed, which enforced a strict separation of church and state. The association includes the most important Protestant denominations in France: the Lutherans , the Reformed , the Evangelicals and the Pentecostals . The seat of the Federation of Churches is Paris . François Clavairoly is the chairman.
Members
Members are 28 churches or church federations, which represent more than 500 associations, institutions and movements. The member churches comprise a total of around 1,400 pastors with 1,650 pastors (including 200 women) and around 800,000 church members (data from 2008). In simple terms, one can say that the churches represented in the Federation of French Evangelical Churches represent around 2.1% of the population of France.
The following churches are represented in the Bund:
- Salvation Army (36 stations)
- Union d'Assemblées de Dieu membre de la Fédération Protestante de France (ADFP) (25 parishes, 2,000 members)
- Communauté des Églises d'expressions africaines en France (CEAF) = Community of African Protestant Churches in France (48 local parishes)
- Communion des Églises de l'espace francophone (CEEF) = Communion of French-speaking churches (30 locations)
- Communion d'Églises protestantes évangéliques (CÉPÉE) (around ten locations)
- Église apostolique (EA) = Apostolic Church (24 parishes, 2,000 members)
- Église de Dieu de France = Church of God in France (20 parishes, 710 members)
- Eglise de Pentecôte de France (23 parishes, 1,670 members)
- Église protestante malgache en France (EPMF) = Malagasy Evangelical Church in France (34 parishes)
- United Protestant Church of France (340,000 members)
- Fédération des Eglises coréennes en France (FECF) (11 churches, 1,110 members)
- Fédération des Églises évangéliques baptistes de France (FEEBF) = Association of the Baptist Churches of France (114 parishes, 6,250 members)
- Mission évangélique des Tziganes de France (Vie et Lumière) (METF) = Evangelical Mission of the Roma in France (life and light) (114 locations, 100,000 members)
- Mission populaire évangélique de France (MPEF) = Evangelical People's Mission of France (17 locations)
- Union d'assemblées protestantes en mission (UAPM) (30 churches)
- Union des Eglises évangéliques arméniennes de France (UEEAF)
- Union des Eglises évangéliques Elim de France (UEEEF)
- Union des Églises évangéliques libres (UEEL) = Association of Protestant Free Churches (56 parishes, 2,500 members)
- Union de l'Eglise évangélique méthodiste de France (UEEMF; part of the Central and Southern Europe Conference of the United Methodist Church ) (21 churches, 1,400 members)
- Union des Églises évangéliques de Réveil (UEER) (11 municipalities, 1,600 members)
- Union of Protestant Churches of Alsace and Lorraine (290 parishes, 260,000 members)
- Union des Eglises protestantes évangéliques Horizon (4 churches)
- Union des Eglises protestantes foursquare France (UEPFF) (7 locations)
- Union des Églises évangéliques du Nazaréen (UEEN) (5 locations, 300 members)
- Union des Fédérations adventistes de France (UFA) = Association of Adventists of France (123 locations)
- Union des Eglises pentecôtisantes indépendantes (UNEPI) (19 locations)
- Union nationale des Eglises protestantes réformées évangéliques de France (UNEPREF) (37 parishes, 13,000 members)
tasks
The main task of the Federation is to strengthen the feeling of togetherness and cooperation between the various churches and ecclesiastical institutions, as well as coordinating joint actions, including ecumenism, with non-Protestant Christian churches.