United Church of Canada: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)
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Encyclopedia: United Church of Canada
The United Church was founded in 1925 as a merger of four Christian denominations: the then-largest and second-largest Protestant denominations in Canada, the Presbyterian Church in Canada and the Methodist Church of Canada; the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec, a numerically less significant but historically important denomination of evangelical Protestantism; and the Association of Local Union Churches. The latter was a predominantly prairie-based movement pressing the older churches toward a larger national union, that began in Melville, Saskatchewan in 1908. As other Evangelical Protestant denominations have tended, in political and theological terms, to drift towards the right, particularly in the United States, the United Church has maintained a liberal position, especially regarding its stances toward the social gospel, women's and minority rights and relations with the wider Christian Church.
About 250,000 people attend United Church services, although some 2.8 million Canadians, or about 9% of the population, reported the United Church as their religious affiliation in the country's 2001 census. This is a significant fall-off from previous censuses in which the proportion of Canadians identifying as United Church members and adherents has been as high as 25%.
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How to say "United Church of Canada" in other languages:
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(German) | United Church of Canada |
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(French) | Église unie du Canada |
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