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Later in 1984 turned to Jakarta to uphold Reformed theology and evangelical spirit. Two years later in 1986 he was the co-founder of Reformed Evangelical School of Theology in Jakarta and Surabaya, and library and printing station that provides Christian books. In 1989 Tong founded the Reformed Evangelical Church of Indonesia (GRII). [1]
Jyutping. tong4 sung4 wing4. Stephen Tong (Chinese: 唐崇榮; pinyin: Táng Chóngróng; Jyutping: tong4 sung4 wing4, born in 22 March 1940) is a Chinese Indonesian Reformed pastor, evangelist, teacher, and musician. He heads the Reformed Evangelical Church of Indonesia, which houses the megachurch Messiah Cathedral, and is the largest ...
Reformed Christianity, [1] also called Calvinism, [a] is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation, a schism in the Western Church. In the modern day, it is largely represented by the Continental, Presbyterian, Episcopal, and Congregational traditions, as well as parts of the Anglican and ...
Indonesia's 29.4 million Christians constituted 10.47% of the country's population in 2023, with 7.41% Protestant (20.8 million) and 3.06% Catholic (8.6 million). Some provinces in Indonesia are majority Christian. In Indonesia, the word Kristen (lit. 'Christian') refers to Protestantism, while Catholicism is referred to as Katolik.
Immanuel Church, Jakarta. The Protestant Church in Western Indonesia (Indonesian: Gereja Protestan di Indonesia bagian Barat, abbreviated as GPIB) is a Reformed Church, and its theology is based on the teaching of John Calvin. It was established on 31 October 1948. It was called the " De Protestantse Kerk in Westelijk Indonesie ", founded in ...
The Reformed Church in Indonesia in Kalbar (GGRI-Kalbar) begun in 1948, was also a mission of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated). Between 1960 and 1993 8 local congregations were established. Later the GGI-Kalbar hag 19 churches, growing into 3 Classes and outreaches to more 15 places and 3,000 members.
The Protestant Church in Indonesia was formed in Ambon, Maluku, in 1605 under the name of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands Indies, in Dutch De Protestantsche Kerk in Nederlandsch-Indië. It is the first Protestant and Reformed church to be founded in Asia. In 1619, the headquarters was moved to Batavia.
Website. www.wts.edu. Westminster Theological Seminary (WTS) is a Protestant theological seminary in the Reformed theological tradition in Glenside, Pennsylvania. It was founded by members of the faculty of Princeton Theological Seminary in 1929 after Princeton chose to take a liberal direction during the Fundamentalist–Modernist controversy.