Reformed Church of France

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Calvinism

John Calvin
Background Christianity St. Augustine The Reformation
Distinctives Calvin's Institutes Five Solas Five Points (TULIP) Regulative principle Confessions of faith
Influences Theodore Beza Synod of Dort Puritan theology Jonathan Edwards Princeton theologians Karl Barth
Churches Reformed Presbyterian Congregationalist Reformed Baptist
Peoples Afrikaner Calvinists Huguenots Pilgrims Puritans This box: view • talk • edit

The Reformed Church of France (French: L’Eglise Réformée de France, ÉRF) is the Reformed, originally Calvinist, church of France. It is the original, and largest, Protestant denomination in France.

The church is a member of the Protestant Federation of France, the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and the World Council of Churches.

The church has approximately 350,000 members in 400 parishes, organised in 50 presbyteries (consistoires).