United Church of Christ

The United Church of Christ (UCC). A socially liberal Mainline Protestant Christian denomination based in the U.S., with historical and confessional roots in the Congregational, Restorationist, Continental Reformed, and Lutheran traditions, and with approximately 4,600 churches and 712,000 members. Notably, its modern members’ theological and socio-political stances are often very different from those of its predecessors.

The UCC is a historical continuation of the General Council of Congregational Christian churches founded under the influence of New England Puritanism. Moreover, it also subsumed the third largest Calvinist group in the country, the German Reformed.