Protestant Federation of France
The Protestant Federation of France is a religious organisation created on 25 October 1905, which united the main Protestant Christian groupings in France. In 2023, the current president is Christian Krieger, who took over from previous president François Clavairoly in 2022.
It is a member of the World Council of Churches.
Federation
The Protestant Federation of France may be further divided as follows:Exhaustive list of Churches or unions of Churches which are members of the PFF:
- United [Protestant Church of France], 2013 union of the Reformed Church of France and the Evangelical [Lutheran Church in France]
- Union of Protestant Churches of Alsace and Lorraine, 2006 union of the Protestant Church of Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine and the Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine">Reformed churches">Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine
- National Union of Independent [Reformed Evangelical Churches of France]
- de France
- Salvation Army
- Malagasy Protestant Church in France
- Communauté des Églises d'expressions africaines en France
- Union of the [Church of God in France]
- Union des Églises évangéliques de Réveil
- Church of the Nazarene
- Communion d'Églises protestantes évangéliques
- International Church of the Foursquare Gospel
- Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Église Hillsong de Paris
- Fédération des Églises coréennes en France
- Union d'Assemblées de Dieu membre de la FPF
- Evangelical Church">Evangelicalism">Evangelical Church
- Union de l’Église évangélique méthodiste de France
- Union des Églises protestantes évangéliques Horizon
- Agapé - France
- Communauté d'Églises protestantes francophones
- German Protestant Church in Paris
- Japanese Protestant Church
- Église protestante évangélique de Rochefort
- American Church in Paris
In 2023, the federation unites approximately 30 churches or unions of churches, as well as 80 associations which represent about 500 communities, institutions and movements; the member churches of the PFF comprise more than 1,400 parishes and 1,600 pastors.
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
- Édouard Gruner
- Rev. Émile Morel
- Rev. Marc Boegner
- Rev. Charles Westphal
- Jean Courvoisier
- Rev. Jacques Maury
- Rev. Jacques Stewart
- Rev. Jean Tartier
- Rev. Jean-Arnold de Clermont
- Rev. Claude Baty
- Rev. François Clavairoly
- Rev. Christian Krieger