The Reformed Churches in Spain () is a confessional
Calvinist
Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. In the modern day, it is largely represented by the Continental Reformed Protestantism, Continenta ...
denomination in
Spain
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.
The group currently has seven congregations spread across the kingdom: churches in
Mataró
Mataró () is the capital and largest town of the Maresme county in Catalonia, Spain. It is located on the Costa del Maresme, Maresme coast, to the south of Costa Brava, between Cabrera de Mar and Sant Andreu de Llavaneres, north-east of Barcel ...
and
Pineda, both near Barcelona; in
Madrid
Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...
; in
Almuñécar
Almuñécar () is a Spanish city and municipalities of Spain, municipality located in the southwestern part of the comarcas of Spain, comarca of the Costa Granadina, in the province of Granada. It is located on the shores of the Mediterranean sea ...
and
Málaga
Málaga (; ) is a Municipalities in Spain, municipality of Spain, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia. With a population of 591,637 in 2024, it is the second-most populo ...
in southern Spain; and in
La Laguna,
Tenerife
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and
Telde
Telde is a municipality in the eastern part of the island of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, overseas (Atlantic) insular Spain. It borders Las Palmas to the north and is part of its urban area.
It is the second most populous municipality on the is ...
(
Gran Canaria
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) both in the
Canary Islands
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.
The churches adhere to the
Three Forms of Unity
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, and some of them recognise the
Westminster Confession of Faith
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. The Malaga congregation allows
paedocommunion, while all of the congregations practice
infant baptism
Infant baptism, also known as christening or paedobaptism, is a Christian sacramental practice of Baptism, baptizing infants and young children. Such practice is done in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches, va ...
.
The denomination maintains good ecclesiastical contact with the
Evangelical Presbyterian Church in England and Wales, the
Free Church of Scotland, and the
Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated). It is also a member of the
International Conference of Reformed Churches
The International Conference of Reformed Churches (ICRC) is a federation of Reformed or Calvinist churches around the world. The ICRC convenes international meetings every four years.
The ICRC was founded in 1981 at Groningen in the Netherlands ...
.
See also
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Protestantism in Spain
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Anglicanism in Spain
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Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Spain
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Federation of Evangelical Religious Entities of Spain
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Spanish Evangelical Church
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Spanish Evangelical Lutheran Church
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Baptist Evangelical Union of Spain
References
External links
Reformed Church in Madrid
Protestantism in Spain
Reformed denominations in Europe
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