Evangelical Covenant Church
The Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) is a Radical Pietistic denomination of evangelical Christianity. The denomination has 129,015 members in 878 congregations and an average worship attendance of 219,000 people in the United States and Canada with ministries on five continents. Of Lutheran Pietist roots and founded in 1885 in North America by Swedish immigrants, the church is now one of the most rapidly growing and multi-ethnic denominations on the continent.
| Evangelical Covenant Church | |
|---|---|
| Classification | Protestant |
| Orientation | Evangelical |
| Theology | Radical Pietism |
| Polity | Congregational |
| Region | United States, Canada |
| Origin | 1885 Chicago, Illinois |
| Separated from | Lutheranism |
| Branched from | Mission Friends |
| Congregations | 878 |
| Members | 129,015 |
| Official website | www.covchurch.org |
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