The Fangcheng Fellowship (
Chinese
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: 方城团契) is a Christian religious movement in China. Established in the early 1970s by
Li Tianen
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,
it expanded to become one of the largest
house church
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networks with, as of 2010, an estimated ten million members.
If considered
Protestant
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, it constitutes
one of the largest Protestant denominations in the world, and the second largest in China, behind the state-supported
Three-Self Patriotic Movement
The Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM; ) is the official government supervisory organ for Protestantism in the People's Republic of China. It is colloquially known as the Three-Self Church ().
The National Committee of the Three-Self Patriot ...
.
See also
*
List of the largest Protestant bodies
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Notes
Protestantism in China
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