Reformed Presbyterian Church of Central and Eastern Europe

Reformed Presbyterian Church of Central and Eastern Europe
Classification Protestant
Orientation Calvinism
Origin 1998
Separated from Reformed Church in Hungary
Congregations 27

The Reformed Presbyterian Church of Central and Eastern Europe (RPCEE) is a Reformed and Presbyterian denomination in Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Ukraine. It split from the Reformed Church in Hungary in 1998, and has 27 congregations.[1]

The Károlyi Gáspár Institute of Theology and Missions (KGTMI) had started in 1992, but in 1997 the Consultative Synod of the Reformed Church in Hungary expelled the seminary and all its students.[2] The RPCEE formed formed the following year, and adopted as its confessional standards the Second Helvetic Confession and Heidelberg Catechism, as well as the Westminster Confession, and Shorter and Larger Catechisms.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Congregations". Reformed Presbyterian Church of Central and Eastern Europe. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  2. ↑ Roberts, Maurice (May 2002). "A Courageous Reformed Witness in Central and Eastern Europe". The Banner of Truth: 6–7. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  3. ↑ Robinson, Steven (April 2002). "The Reformed Presbyterian Church of Central and Eastern Europe". Covenanter Witness: 15–18. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
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