The Christian Evangelical Church in Minahasa (Gereja Masehi Injii di Minahasa) is a
Protestant
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century against what its followers perceived to b ...
,
Calvinist
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and
Reformed church
Church may refer to:
Religion
* Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
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in
Indonesia
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. It was founded in
North Sulawesi
North Sulawesi ( id, Sulawesi Utara) is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the Minahasa Peninsula of Sulawesi, south of the Philippines and southeast of Sabah, Malaysia. It borders the Philippine province of Davao Occidental and Socc ...
on 30 September 1934.
Christianity was introduced to Minahasa by Johann Friedrich Riedel and Johann Gottlieb Schwarz. They were educated in the
Netherlands
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and were sent by the
Netherlands Missionary Society The Netherlands Missionary Society (Dutch: ''Nederlandsch Zendelinggenootschap'') was a Dutch Protestant missionary society founded in 1797 in Rotterdam that was involved in sending workers to countries such as Indonesia during the Dutch occupation ...
. By the 1880s the Christian population grew to 80,000. In 1876 it became part of the colonial state church the
Protestant Church in Indonesia The Protestant Church in Indonesia is a Reformed church; it is a member of World Communion of Reformed Churches.
Origin
The Protestant Church in Indonesia was formed in Ambon, Maluku in 1605 under the name of the Protestant Church in the Netherla ...
. The first
synod was in 1934, at which it adopted its current name. Sister church relations were established with the
Reformed Church in the Netherlands
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,
Lutheran World Federation
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,
Presbyterian Church in Korea
Presbyterian Church of Korea (PCK) was a Protestant denomination based in South Korea; it is currently separated into many branches.
History
The first Korean Presbyterian church was founded by Seo Sang-ryun in Hwanghae province in 1884. Short ...
,
Reformed Church in America, and
Uniting Church in Australia
The Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) was founded on 22 June 1977, when most congregations of the Methodist Church of Australasia, about two-thirds of the Presbyterian Church of Australia and almost all the churches of the Congregational Uni ...
.
Membership of the church is 850,000 in 839 parishes.
The Christian Evangelical Church in Minahasa is a member of
World Communion of Reformed Churches
The World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) is the largest association of Calvinist churches in the world. It has 230 member denominations in 108 countries, together claiming an estimated 80 million people, thus being the fourth-largest Chris ...
.
References
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1934 establishments in the Dutch East Indies
Calvinist denominations established in the 20th century
Evangelical denominations in Asia
Lutheran denominations established in the 20th century
Members of the World Communion of Reformed Churches
Reformed denominations in Indonesia
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