United Reformed Church
| United Reformed Church | |
|---|---|
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| General | |
| Belief | Reformed |
| organization |
Presbyterianism Congregationalism |
| distribution | Great Britain |
| membership |
World Council of Churches , World Fellowship of Reformed Churches , Council for World Mission, Conference of European Churches , Fellowship of Evangelical Churches in Europe , Churches Together in Britain and Ireland , Churches Together in England, Action of Churches Together in Scotland, Cytûn, Christian Aid, World Development Movement |
| founding | |
| Establishment date | 1972 |
| Origin and development | |
| Merger with |
The URC is the result of a merger between the Presbyterian Church of England and the Congregational Church in England and Wales in 1972 and subsequent mergers with the Re-formed Association of Churches of Christ in 1981 and the Congregational Union of Scotland in 2000. |
| numbers | |
| Members | 56,000 |
| Communities | 1,400 |
| Others | |
| Also called: | URC |
| Website | urc.org.uk |
The United Reformed Church (URC) is a Reformed Church in Great Britain .
history
The URC was formed in 1972 from the merger of the Presbyterian Church of England ( Presbyterian Church of England) and the Congregational Church in England and Wales ( Congregational Church in England and Wales). In 1981 the Re-formed Churches of Christ joined them, and in 2000 the Congregational Union of Scotland followed . The URC currently has around 150,000 adults and 100,000 children and young people in 1,750 communities.
Believe
The religious life of the URC is shaped by Presbyterian , Congregational and Calvinist traditions. In the Union Confession of 1981 it describes itself as part of the “one holy, catholic and apostolic church” and, among other things, professes itself. a. to “receive and express the renewing life of the Holy Spirit in every place and in all of their communities”. Men and women are ordained in the URC . The blessing of same-sex couples in the URC since 2012 and the marriage of same sex couples allowed since 2016th
Ecumenism
The URC belongs to numerous ecumenical organizations , for example the World Council of Churches , the Community of Evangelical Churches in Europe and the World Community of Reformed Churches .
politics
In 2004, the URC was the first church in Great Britain to pass a de facto incompatibility resolution with the racist British National Party (BNP) or comparable organizations.
Web links
- United Reformed Church website
- The basis of the Union a statement of the nature, the commitment and the order of the United Reformed Church (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lukas Vischer (Ed.): Reformed witness today. A collection of more recent confessional texts from the Reformed tradition. Neukirchen-Vluyn 1988, pp. 289f.
- ↑ United Reformed Church: United Reformed Church votes to host same-sex civil partnerships , July 2012
- ↑ BBC: United Reformed Church approves gay marriage services , July 2016
- ↑ Assembly Report 2005, p. 94, Paragraph 2.3 (PDF; 2.5 MB)