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Ecclesiastical polity is the government of a church. There are local ( congregational) forms of organization as well as denominational. A church's polity may describe its ministerial offices or an authority structure between churches. Polity relates closely to ecclesiology, the theological study of the church.
Reformed churches have two main forms of ecclesiastical polity: Presbyterian polity or Synodal government - rule by assemblies of ordained officers. Congregationalist polity, e.g. Congregational churches; Other websites. World Communion of Reformed Churches * World list of Reformed Churches; Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals
Congregationalist polity From an alternative name : This is a redirect from a title that is another name or identity such as an alter ego, a nickname, or a synonym of the target, or of a name associated with the target.
Congregational church. Congregationalism is a way to organize Christian (usually Protestant) churches. With Congregationalism, each church or community has a lot of autonomy. Anabaptist, Baptist, and Pentecostal movements are often organised this way. It is different from Presbyteranism, where a number of elders govern the churches, and from ...
Polity: Congregational polity: Associations: International Congregational Fellowship: Region: Great Britain: Origin: Formed in 1972 from congregations which did not join the United Reformed Church: Separated from: Congregational Church in England and Wales: Congregations: 235 (2024) Publications: The Congregationalist: Official website: www ...
The National Council of Congregational Churches of the United States was a mainline Protestant, Christian denomination in the United States. Its organization as a denomination was delayed by the Civil War. Congregational leaders met again in Boston, Massachusetts in 1865, where they began to hammer out standards of church procedures (polity ...
Ecclesiastical polity. Congregationalist polity, or congregational polity, often known as congregationalism, is a system of ecclesiastical polity in which every local church (congregation) is independent, ecclesiastically sovereign, or "autonomous". Its first articulation in writing is the Cambridge Platform of 1648 in New England .
