• Source: Reformed Ecumenical Council

The Reformed Ecumenical Council (REC) was an international organization of Calvinist churches. It had 39 member denominations from 25 countries in its membership, and those churches have about 12 million people together. It was founded August 14, 1946 in Grand Rapids, Michigan as the Reformed Ecumenical Synod. The Reformed Ecumenical Council was the second largest international Calvinist alliance and the more conservative of the two largest. In 1953, The Reformed Ecumenical Synod meeting in Edinburgh decided to advise its member churches not to join the World Council of Churches as currently constituted because it “permits essentially different interpretations of its doctrinal basis, and thus the nature of the Christian faith” and “represents itself as a Community of faith, but is actually not this” due to member churches holding “basically divergent positions.”
About two-thirds of REC member churches also belonged to the larger World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC). The seat of the Reformed Ecumenical Council was Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.
After a two-day meeting ending on 1 February 2006, Douwe Visser, president of the REC and Clifton Kirkpatrick, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, said in a joint letter to their constituencies, "We rejoice in the work of the Holy Spirit which we believe has led us to recommend that the time has come to bring together the work of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and the Reformed Ecumenical Council into one body that will strengthen the unity and witness of Calvinist Christians." The new body would be called the World Communion of Reformed Churches.




Australia


Christian Reformed Churches of Australia




Botswana


Dutch Reformed Church in Botswana




Dominican Republic


Christian Reformed Church of the Dominican Republic




France


Evangelical Reformed Church of France (UNEPREF, formerly EREI)




Greece


Greek Evangelical Church




India


Presbyterian Church of India




Indonesia


Indonesian Christian Church of Central Java (GKI)
Javanese Christian Churches (GKJ)
Christian Church of Sumba (GKS)
Southernpart Sumatra Christian Church (GKSBS)
Church of Toraja Mamasa (GTM)
Toraja Church (GT)




Japan


Reformed Church in Japan




Kenya


The Reformed Church of East Africa




Korea


The Presbyterian General Assembly (Reformed Church of Korea)




Malawi


Church of Central Africa Presbyterian - Nkhoma Synod




Mexico


Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church of Mexico




Mozambique


Reformed Church in Mozambique




Myanmar


Christian Reformed Church in Myanmar




Netherlands


Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN)




Nigeria


Christian Reformed Church of Nigeria
Church of Christ in Nigeria
Church of Christ in the Sudan Among the Tiv (NKST)
Evangelical Reformed Church of Christ
Presbyterian Church of Nigeria




Philippines


Christian Reformed Church in the Philippines




South Africa


Dutch Reformed Church (NGK)
Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA)
Reformed Church in Africa
Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika (NHKA)




Sri Lanka


Dutch Reformed Church in Sri Lanka




Swaziland


Swaziland Reformed Church (SRC)




Uganda


Christian Reformed Church of East Africa
Reformed Presbyterian Church in Uganda




United States and Canada


Christian Reformed Church in North America




Notes






External links


World Reformed Communion announcement

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Calvinisme
• Persekutuan Gereja-Gereja Reformed Sedunia
• Gereja Presbiterian
• Christelijke Gereformeerde Kerken
• A.A. Yewangoe
• Dewan Gereja-Gereja Sedunia
• Protestanisme
• Penyembahan berhala
• Keperawanan abadi Maria
• Lesslie Newbigin
• Reformed Ecumenical Council
• Ecumenical council
• World Communion of Reformed Churches
• Christian Reformed Church in North America
• World Alliance of Reformed Churches
• Second Vatican Council
• Continental Reformed Protestantism
• World Council of Churches
• Catholic ecumenical councils
• Council of Chalcedon