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Windsor 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 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.

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  • North Congregational Church. 36520 West Twelve Mile Road Farmington Hills, Michigan - panoramio

    North Congregational Church in Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States.

  • Catalogue of Sects

    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.

  • Elsternwick Congregational Church, exterior (2)

    Elsternwick Congregational Church (1894–1977); Orrong Road, Elsternwick, Victoria, Australia

  • Bechuana Congregation (relates to David Livingstone) by The London Missionary Society cropped

    The London Missionary Society preaching to native peoples of Oceania

  • 'A Missionary Preaching to the Natives, under a Skreen of platted Cocoa-nut leaves at Kairua' by William Ellis

    William Ellis preaching to the Natives, Hawaii, c. 1823

  • Congregational Church, Middlebury, Vermont

    A Congregational church in Middlebury, Vermont

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