A timeline showing the development of the United Church of Christ

 

Congregational Church The Christian Churches German Reformed Church of the U.S. Evangelical Synod
1620:
Puritans come to Massachusetts and unite to begin North American Congregationalism		      
    1725:
German immigrants establish congregations in North America		  
    1793:
The Synod of the German Reformed Church in the United States is formed		  
  1794:
O'Kelly "Christians" group is formed		    
      1800:
German immigrants establish churches in the Midwest
  1801:
First Free Christian Church in Vermont is organized		    
  1850:
American Christian Convention of Churches in the Northeast is formed		    
  1854:
Southern Christian Convention is formed		    
    1867:
The name "German" is dropped from the Synod title		  
      1872:
Churches organize into the German Evangelical Synod of North America
1892:
Congregational Methodists join		      
  1922:
The Christian Church is organized		    
1925:
Evangelical Protestants join		      
1927:
German Congregationalists join		     1927:
The name "German" is dropped from the Synod title.

1931:
Stressing congregational freedom and a continuing reformation, the Congregational Church and the Christian Church unite to form the Congregational Christian  Churches

  
 

1934:
Stressing liberty of conscience, authority of the Scriptures, and their common liberal German Protestant heritage, the Reformed Church and the Evangelical Synod unite to form the Evangelical and Reformed Church


1957:
The Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church unite on June 25, 1957

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