Union of Methodist and Waldensian Churches
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The Union of Methodist and Waldensian Churches is an Italian united church.
It was founded in 1975 with the union of the Waldensian Evangelical Church (a reformed church which has pre-Lutheran roots) and the Italian Methodist Church.
It has 50,000 members (45,000 Waldensians, of whom 30,000 in Italy and some 15,000 divided between Argentina and Uruguay, and 5,000 Methodists) and it is member both of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and of the World Methodist Council.
It is a founding member of the Federation of Evangelical Churches in Italy.
