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Association of Mennonite Evangelical Churches in France (french: Association des églises évangéliques mennonites de France) is the conference of
Mennonite Mennonites are groups of Anabaptist Christian church communities of denominations. The name is derived from the founder of the movement, Menno Simons (1496–1561) of Friesland. Through his writings about Reformed Christianity during the Radic ...
s in France. It is a member of the
Mennonite World Conference The Mennonite World Conference (MWC) is a Mennonite Anabaptist Christian denomination. Its headquarters are in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. History The first ''Mennonite World Conference'' was held in Basel in 1925. Its main purpose was to celebra ...
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History

The AEEMF has its origins in two organizations, the Association of Mennonite Churches of France, founded in 1925 and the French-speaking Mennonite Churches, founded in 1928. The two organizations merged in 1980 to form the Association of Evangelical Mennonite Churches of France.


Statistics

According to a census of the denomination, in 2022, it would have 31 churches and 2,100 members. Mennonite World Conference
Global map
mwc-cmm.org, Canada, retrieved January 14, 2023


References


Further reading

*J. S. Oyer, ''The Strasbourg Conferences of the Anabaptists, 1554-1607'', Mennonite Quarterly Review, 1984, vol. 58, no.3, pp. 218–229 *Jean Séguy, ''Les assemblées anabaptistes-mennonites de France'', 1977,


External links

*Neff, Christian and Ernst H. Correll.

" Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1955. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 4 November 2008
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