Congregationalism

Denomination·Founded 1582 CE·No single body counts Congregationalists. Most of the American churches went into the United Church of Christ in 1957; the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches and the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference each hold several hundred congregations, and the Congregational Federation is the surviving English body.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → Congregationalism

National Association of Congregational Christian ChurchesUnited Church of ChristArchiveCongregational Library and Archives, Boston

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Rites & Ritual

what its people do — and when Part of Practice →
Yearly
The covenant, signed and read out. A congregation constitutes itself by writing down how its members will walk together and putting their names to it. Many congregations still read the covenant aloud at the first communion of the year and ask members to renew it. When Once in the life of a congregation, and renewed annually in manyWho The gathered members Go deeper — context →

Numbers count Panfaith activity only — never real-world adherence.

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