Wikipedia's article on the Congregational Christian Churches, the American body formed by the 1931 merger of the National Council of the Congregational Churches and the General Convention of the Christian Church, consulted 2026-08-16. States that the body brought approximately 1.4 million members, about 60 percent of the total, into the 1957 merger forming the United Church of Christ.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregational_Christian_Churches
Source Typeencyclopedia
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Tier three, a community-edited tertiary reference, matching this database's established convention for Wikipedia citations. Used here only for the checkable figure of what the Congregational Christian Churches brought into the 1957 United Church of Christ merger. Cross-Tradition Connections
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