Federation of Pentecostal Churches (Italy)
The Federation of Pentecostal Churches (Federazione delle Chiese Pentecostali, FCP) is a fellowship of Pentecostal churches in Italy.
The FCP was officially founded in 2000, but this was just the last step of a long process of federation started in 1983 with the "Rally of Pentecostal Ministers" and continued in 1997 with the foundation of the "Communion of Pentecostal Evangelical Churches".[1] The FCP, which is an observer member of the Federation of Evangelical Churches in Italy (FCEI),[2] is the second-largest Pentecostal body in the country after the Assemblies of God in Italy and has over 50,000 members.[1]
Among FCP member organizations and movements, there are seven main groups:[3]
- the Italian Pentecostal Christian Church
- the Apostolic Church in Italy, Italian branch of the Apostolic Church
- the Elim Churches in Italy, Italian branch of the Elim Pentecostal Church
- the International Evangelical Church and Missionary Association, Italian branch of the International Evangelical Church
- the Italian branch of the Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)
- the New Pentecost Movement
- the Word of Grace Church
References
- 1 2 "FCP — La Storia". Fcpitalia.org. Retrieved 2015-06-05.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130224063136/http://www.fedevangelica.it/fcei/fcei044.php. Archived from the original on February 24, 2013. Retrieved August 13, 2012. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "FCP — Movimenti". Fcpitalia.org. Retrieved 2015-06-05.
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