The United Church of Canada was formed in 1925 by the merger of the Methodist, Congregational, and most Presbyterian congregations in Canada — a milestone of twentieth-century Protestant ecumenism. The United Church has since 1936 ordained women, affirmed same-sex marriage in 1988 (and ordained openly gay clergy since the same year), and become the dominant mainline Protestant body in Canada — with substantial membership decline. In practice it functions as a broadly liberal Protestant denomination with no binding confession. AskCredo places the United Church in the C-tier as a mainline Protestant body whose public teaching has departed substantively from historic Christian confessional positions on marriage, biblical authority, and in some wings of the church on Christological substance.
Basis of Union (1925, broadly Protestant)
congregational-presbyterian mix
mixed
North America · Founded 1925
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