Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches
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The Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches (, , - SEK-FEPS) is a federation
of 26 member churches — 24 cantonal churches and two free churches (Free Church of Geneva and the Evangelical-Methodist Church of Switzerland). The SEK-FEPS is not a church in a theological understanding, because every member is independent with their own theological and formal organisation. It serves as a legal umbrella before the federal government and represents the church in International relations.
Except for the Evangelical-Methodist Church, which covers all of Switzerland, the member churches are restricted to a certain territory.
President of the Federation is Thomas Wipf.
Federation
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of 26 member churches — 24 cantonal churches and two free churches (Free Church of Geneva and the Evangelical-Methodist Church of Switzerland). The SEK-FEPS is not a church in a theological understanding, because every member is independent with their own theological and formal organisation. It serves as a legal umbrella before the federal government and represents the church in International relations.
Except for the Evangelical-Methodist Church, which covers all of Switzerland, the member churches are restricted to a certain territory.
President of the Federation is Thomas Wipf.
Members of the Federation
- Reformierte Landeskirche Aargau
- Evangelisch-reformierte Landeskirchen beider Appenzell
- Evangelisch-reformierte Kirche des Kantons Basel-Landschaft
- Evangelisch-reformierte Kirche Basel-Stadt
- Reformierte Kirchen Bern-Jura-Solothurn
- Evangelisch-reformierte Kirche des Kantons Freiburg
- Église Protestante de Genève
- Église Évangélique Libre de Genève
- Evangelisch-Reformierte Landeskirche des Kantons Glarus
- Evangelisch-reformierte Landeskirche Graubünden
- Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche des Kantons Luzern
- Église réformée évangélique du canton de Neuchâtel
- Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche Nidwalden
- Verband der Evangelisch-Reformierten Kirchgemeinden des Kantons Obwalden
- Evangelisch-reformierte Kirche des Kantons St. Gallen
- Evangelisch-reformierte Kirche Kanton Schaffhausen
- Evangelisch-reformierte Kantonalkirche Schwyz
- Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche im Kanton Solothurn
- Chiesa evangelica riformata nel Ticino
- Evangelische Landeskirche des Kantons Thurgau
- Evangelisch-Reformierte Landeskirche Uri
- Église Évangélique Réformée du canton de Vaud
- Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche des Wallis
- Evangelisch-reformierte Landeskirche des Kantons Zürich
- Evangelisch-reformierte Kirchgemeinde des Kantons Zug
- Evangelisch-methodistische Kirche in der Schweiz
External links
- Schweizerischer Evangelischer Kirchenbund / Fédération des Églises protestantes de Suisse -- Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches