The Protestant Church of Geneva (EPG, French: Église protestante de Genève) is a Swiss organization of congregations in the Canton of Geneva. It was founded in 1536 during the Protestant Reformation.[1] It was the state church of Geneva from its inception until 1907.[2] It is a member of the Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches and, through that body, a member of the World Council of Churches and the World Communion of Reformed Churches. As of 2003, the church had approximately 94,472 members, of whom 15,095 were baptized.[3] The ministers of the church are organized in the Company of Pastors, and the Genevan Consistory functions as a sort of parliament of the church.[4] Female ordination is allowed.
References
edit- ^ Reformed Online database
- ^ Rüegger, Heinz (16 October 2006). "Eglises évangéliques réformées". Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse (in French). Bern. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Reformed Online database
- ^ L’Eglise protestante de Genève. "Unie, diverse, libre" (PDF) (in French). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-08. Retrieved 2013-09-08.
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