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Reformed Catholics is an Independent Catholic denomination founded in New York City, United States, in 1879, by some priests who left the Catholic Church. It was not in communion with the pope in Rome. Dissident formerly Catholic priests formed a few congregations chiefly in New York, and began evangelistic work on a Protestant basis of belief.
The terms Old Catholic Church, Old Catholics, Old-Catholic churches, [4] or Old Catholic movement, [5] designate "any of the groups of Western Christians who believe themselves to maintain in complete loyalty the doctrine and traditions of the undivided church but who separated from the See of Rome after the First Vatican council of 1869–70".
Old Trinity Church, one of the oldest churches in Philadelphia, erected 1711 (Episcopal) Christ Lutheran Church (York), built in 1743 (Lutheran). Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church (Philadelphia) – Founded in 1876 as a small group of church goers and built on land in Germantown on 230 W. Coulter Street off of Wayne Avenue.
The majority of the original Reformed Church in the United States, which was founded in 1725, merged with Evangelical Synod of North America (a mix of German Reformed & Lutheran theologies) to form the Evangelical and Reformed Church in 1940 (which would merge with the Congregational Christian Churches in 1957 to form the United Church of ...
American Catholic Church in the United States; American Catholic Church (1915) American National Catholic Church; Community Catholic Church of Canada; Canonical Old Roman Catholic Church; Catholic Apostolic Church of Antioch; Christ Catholic Church; Ecumenical Catholic Church; Ecumenical Catholic Church of Christ; Ecumenical Catholic Communion
The Reformed Old Apostolic Church is a chiliastic denomination with roots in the Catholic Apostolic Church and the Old Apostolic Church. It is part of a branch in Christianity called Irvingism [1] with membership throughout South Africa. It has approximately 180,000 members. [2]
Independent Catholicism is an independent sacramental movement of clergy and laity who self-identify as Catholic (most often as Old Catholic or as Independent Catholic) and form "micro-churches claiming apostolic succession and valid sacraments", [1] in spite of not being affiliated to the historic Catholic church, the Roman Catholic church. [2]
Reformed churches practice several forms of church government, primarily presbyterian and congregational, but some adhere to episcopal polity. The largest interdenominational association is the World Communion of Reformed Churches with more than 100 million members in 211 member denominations around the world.