Fangcheng Fellowship

The Fangcheng Fellowship (Chinese: 方城团契) is a Christian religious movement in China. Established in the early 1970s by Li Tianen,^[1] it expanded to become one of the largest house church networks with, as of 2010, an estimated ten million members.^[2] If considered Protestant, it constitutes one of the largest Protestant denominations in the world, and the second largest in China, behind the state-supported Three-Self Patriotic Movement.

Notes

↑ Old, Hughes Oliphant (15 March 2010). The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church: Our own time. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 624. ISBN 978-0-8028-1771-6. Retrieved 14 May 2012.
↑ Shaw, Mark (25 March 2010). Global Awakening: How 20th-Century Revivals Triggered a Christian Revolution. InterVarsity Press. p. 177. ISBN 978-0-8308-3877-6. Retrieved 14 May 2012.

Chinese Independent Churches

Established Pre-1949	CCC GGC CCIC SCICC CCSMC CAH JF CCiC BLC EFCC (independent since 1949) LCC (independent since 1951)

Established Post-1949	TSPM (state-controlled body) BAM FF CGF CHC Back to Jerusalem movement

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