Congregational church facts for kids
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 Episcopalism, where a number of bishops govern the churches. Originally, Congregationalism was part of the Anglican church, who took some of the teachings of Jean Calvin and Huldrych Zwingli, in the 16th and 17th century. Those who wanted congregationalism usually were Puritans.
Images for kids
-
North Congregational Church in Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States.
-
A Catalogue of the Several Sects and Opinions in England and other Nations: With a briefe Rehearsall of their false and dangerous Tenents, propaganda broadsheet denouncing English Dissenters from 1647.
-
The London Missionary Society preaching to native peoples of Oceania
-
A Congregational church in Middlebury, Vermont
See also
In Spanish: Iglesia congregacional para niños