World Fellowship of Reformed Churches

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One or more members of the World Fellowship of Reformed Churches are in the countries marked in red

The World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC; englisch World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) ; French Communion mondiale d'Eglises réformées ), headquartered in Hanover is an international association of currently 230 Reformed churches with a total of more than 80 million members.

management

The President of the international umbrella organization has been the Lebanese theologian Najla Kassab Abousawan since 2017. The Canadian Chris Ferguson has been General Secretary since 2014 .

history

The world community was created in June 2010 by the merger of WARC and the Reformed Ecumenical Council ( Reformed Ecumenical Council , REC). The first general secretary of the WGRK was the Ghanaian theologian Setri Nyomi , who had been general secretary of the Reformed World Federation since 2000.

The federation was formed in 1970 in Nairobi as a merger of a Presbyterian world organization founded in 1875 and a congregational world organization founded in 1891 . The Reformed World Council was formed in 1946.

On January 1, 2014, the WRK relocated its headquarters from Geneva to Hanover in order to save costs. Their seat, like that of the Reformed Covenant , is in the Calvin Center .

Member churches in German-speaking countries

Member churches in German-speaking countries are the Evangelical Reformed Church , the Lippe Regional Church (both of which as regional churches are also members of the EKD ), the Reformed Federation, the Evangelical Reformed Church in Switzerland , the Evangelical Church HB in Austria and, since 2013, the Evangelical old reformed church in Lower Saxony . The world community in Lower Saxony is a corporation under public law ( state church law ) .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WCRC History. Retrieved May 28, 2012 .
  2. ↑ World Fellowship of Reformed Churches: A woman at the helm for the first time , idea , accessed on July 11, 2017.
  3. ↑ World Community of Reformed Churches, called to community, committed to justice. World Fellowship of Reformed Churches, archived from the original on July 2, 2010 ; Retrieved July 18, 2010 .
  4. ↑ World Community of Reformed Churches moves to Hanover . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of November 5, 2012, accessed on July 11, 2017.
  5. ↑ World Community of Reformed Churches has moved to Hanover. In: Landeskirche-Hannovers.de , January 4, 2014, accessed on July 11, 2017.
  6. ↑ The World Community of Reformed Churches as a corporation under public law , right magnifying glass from December 12, 2012, accessed on December 12, 2012.