Protestant Federation of France

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Protestant Federation of France
Fédération protestante de France
Abbreviation	FPF
Classification	Protestant
Orientation	Reformed, Lutheran evangelical
President	[de; fr]
Region	France
Headquarters	Paris
Origin	1905
Official website	www.protestants.org

The Protestant Federation of France (Fédération protestante de France) is a religious organisation created on 25 October 1905, which united the principal Protestant Christian groupings in France. The current president is , who took over from previous president Claude Baty in 2013.

Federation[]

The Protestant Federation of France may be further divided as follows:

• Lutheran
• Reformed
• Evangelical
• Pentecostal

Exhaustive list (2019) of Churches or unions of Churches which are members of the PFF:

• United Protestant Church of France (EPUF, Église protestante unie de France), 2013 union of the Reformed Church of France (ERF) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in France (EELF)
• Union of Protestant Churches of Alsace and Lorraine (UEPAL, Union des Églises protestantes d'Alsace et de Lorraine), 2006 union of the Protestant Church of Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine (EPCAAL) and the Protestant Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine (EPRAL)
• National Union of Independent Reformed Evangelical Churches of France (UNEPREF, Union nationale des églises protestantes réformées évangéliques de France, formerly EREI)
•  [fr] (FEEBF)
•  [fr] de France (MPEF)
•  [fr] (UEEL)
• Salvation Army (AdS, Armée du Salut)
• Malagasy Protestant Church in France (FPMA, Église protestante malgache en France)
• (CEAF)
• (UEDF, Union de l’Église de Dieu en France)
•  [fr] (METF)
• Union des Églises évangéliques de Réveil (UEER)
• Church of the Nazarene (UEPN, Union de l'Église protestante du Nazaréen)
•  [fr] (CEEF)
• (CÉPÉE)
• International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (UEPFF, Union des Églises protestantes Foursquare France
•  [fr] (UAPM)
• Seventh-day Adventist Church (UFA, Union des Fédérations adventistes de France
• (EPF)
• (FECF)
• Union d'Assemblées de Dieu membre de la FPF (ADFP)
• Armenian Evangelical Church (UEEAF,  [fr])
• (UEEMF)
• (UEPEH)

Associated members

• Agapé - France
• (Ceeefe)
• German Protestant Church in Paris (Église évangélique allemande de Paris)
• (Église protestante de langue japonaise)
• American Church in Paris (Église américaine de Paris)
•  [fr] (Église luthérienne suédoise)

Former members

• Apostolic Church (EA, Église apostolique)

In all, the federation unites 23 churches or unions of churches, as well as 81 associations which represent about 500 communities, institutions and movements.

The member churches of the PFF comprise some 1,268 parishes, 1,065 pastors (of which 196 are women). 900,000 Protestants belong to the member Churches.

The churches cooperate in variety of sectors: childcare, care of the elderly, social and medical action, holidays and outings in the community, education, communication, art, international relations, development.

Presidents[]

1. Édouard Gruner (1905-1927)
2. Rev. (1927-1929)
3. Rev. Marc Boegner (1929-1961)
4. Rev. (1961-1970)
5. (1970-1977)
6. Rev. Jacques Maury (1977-1987)
7. Rev. (1987-1997)
8. Rev. (1997-1999)
9. Rev. Jean-Arnold de Clermont (1999-2007)
10. Rev. Claude Baty (2007-2013)
11. Rev. (27 September 2013 – present)

See also[]

• Lyon Anglican Church

External links[]

• Official site
• The Maison du protestantisme is at coordinates 48°52′49″N 23°17′01″E / 48.880215°N 23.28367°E / 48.880215; 23.28367