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The United Reformed Church The United Reformed
Church was formed in 1972 by the union of the Congregational Church in England and Wales
and the Presbyterian Church of England. The United Reformed Church has continued to
express its deep commitment to the visible unity of the whole Church. In 1981 it entered
into union with the Re-formed Churches of Christ and in the year 2000 with the
Congregational Union of Scotland. The United Reformed Church is in frequent dialogue on
unity with other traditions and has more than 400 local churches united with other
denominations. The United Reformed
Church comprises 150,000 adults and 100,000 children and young people in 1750
congregations spread throughout England, Scotland and Wales, served by some 1100
ministers, both women and men. Though one of the
smaller of Britain’s ‘mainstream’ denominations, the United Reformed Church
stands in the historic Reformed tradition, whose member denominations make up the largest
single strand of Protestantism with more than 70 million members world-wide. Along with
other Reformed churches the United Reformed Church holds to the Trinitarian faith
expressed in the historic Christian creeds and finds its supreme authority for faith and
conduct in the Word of God in the Bible, discerned under guidance of the Holy Spirit. The
United Reformed Church’s structure also expresses its faith in the ministry of all
God’s people through the structure of democratic Councils by which the Church is
governed. (Taken, in part, from official URC website) |
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