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The Free Reformed Churches in South Africa (Afrikaans: Vrye Gereformeerde Kerke in Suid Afrika, VGKSA) is a federation of Protestant Christian churches. It follows Reformed Calvinist theology and has adopted the Dutch "three forms of unity" as its doctrinal standards: Canons of Dordt, Belgic Confession and the Heidelberg Catechism and subscribes to the three Ecumenical Creeds: The Apostles ...
Reformed Churches in South Africa is a member of the World Reformed Fellowship [16] and the International Conference of Reformed Churches [17] The Gereformeerde Kerke has sister church relationship with the : Christian Reformed Churches in the Netherlands; Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated) Netherlands Reformed Churches
The denomination is present in 6 South African Provinces, these are: Eastern Cape Province (3 churches) Free State (1 church) Gauteng (8 church) Kwazulu Natal (4 church) Mpumalanga (1 church) Western Cape (5 church) Approximately 22 churches belong to the Christian Reformed Church in South Africa [4]
McCracken retired in 1974 and died in South Africa in 1987. In 1982 the church become independent, though remains in close connection with the Free Church of Scotland. [1] Dumisani Bible School and Theological Institute was formed by its first Principal, Rev William (Bill) Graham of the Free Church of Scotland, in King William's Town in 1987 ...
The Maranatha Reformed Church of Christ (MRCC) is a Christian Reformed denomination founded in 1923, in South Africa, by former members of the Free Church of Scotland, due to disputes relating to the administration of the sacraments.
It is the largest and most liberal church within South Africa's Dutch Reformed Church tradition, claiming 1.1 million members and 1,626 ordained ministers in 1,162 congregations. The NHK developed as an autonomous reformed church in South Africa during the Great Trek in the late 1850s, because the church in the Cape Colony under British rule ...
The Dutch Reformed Church was introduced to South Africa by the Dutch East India Company's settlement at Cape Town in 1652. The first formal congregation was established in 1665 under the jurisdiction of the classis (presbytery) of Amsterdam.
The Groote Kerk in Cape Town is the church building of the oldest existing congregation in southern Africa The interior of the Groote Kerk. When the Dutch East India Company sent Jan van Riebeeck to start a Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652, most of the company's employees were members of the Dutch Reformed Church.