The Evangelical Church of Gabon (french: Église Evangélique du Gabon) belongs to the
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family of churches.
History
It was created by
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missionaries, the American Board of Foreign Missions worked in Gabon between 1842 and 1870. The Board of Foreign Mission of the
Presbyterian Church (USA)
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worked from 1870 to 1913. The Paris Mission Society took over the mission till 1961, when the Evangelical Church of Gabon become independent. The church underwent several splits, and the denomination had hard times in the 1970s.
In 1997 the Synod was formed. In April 2005 several dissenting groups reunified. From this time the united denomination extended its activities to south
Gabon
Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, it is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north ...
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21st century
The church accepts the
La Rochelle Confession of Faith The French Confession of Faith (1559) or Confession de La Rochelle or Gallic Confession of Faith or La Rochelle Confession of Faith is a Reformed confession of faith.
Under the sponsorship of Geneva a Calvinist church was organised in Paris N.V. ...
. It is a member of the
World Council of Churches
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, the Fellowship of Christian Councils and Churches of Central Africa.
Since 2004 women are accepted to the ministry.
In 2016, the church had 20,500 members. In 2020, 79.52% of the population had a Christian background; most of these were Catholic.
In 2022, Louis-Sylvain Allogho Engo became the president of the church.Gabon Review News website, ''Eglise Evangelique du Gabon, Le Nouveau President'' /ref>
See also
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Religion in Gabon
Christianity is the predominant religion in Gabon, with significant minorities of the adherents of Islam and traditional faiths.Roman Catholicism in Gabon