The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), [3] [a] formerly named Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches [b] until 31 December 2019, is a federation of 25 member churches – 24 cantonal churches and the Evangelical-Methodist Church of Switzerland. The PCS is not a church in a theological understanding, because every member is independent ...

It led to significant changes in civil life and state matters in Zürich and spread to several other cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy. Seven cantons remained Catholic, however, which led to intercantonal wars known as the Wars of Kappel.

While the vast majority of Protestants in Switzerland adhere to a Reformed confession (Zwinglian or Calvinist), an Anabaptist minority has been present in Switzerland since the Swiss Reformation, organized in the Swiss Mennonite Conference (since 1810) and the Baptist Church (since 1849).

Calvin reformed the structures of the church church by imitating the primitive church as described in the New Testament. He tried to strenghten the indepence of the church from the state (pastors chose pastors and teachers), even if the Geneva city council insisted on its right of ratification.

The Swiss Reformation can be divided up into three periods: 1) The Zwinglian Reformation in the German cantons from 1516 to Zwingli’s death, 2) The Calvinistic Reformation in French Switzerland from 1531 to John Calvin’s death in 1564, and 3) The labors of Bullinger in Zurich and Beza in Geneva.[1]

Conflict came to an end with Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575), the “patriarch of reformed Protestantism”. The drawing-up of the New Helvitic Confession (Confession Hélvétique postérieure) (1566) was to be the definitive basis of Swiss Protestantism.

2008年6月2日 · History of the Swiss Reformed Church since the Reformation by Good, James I. (James Isaac), 1850-1924; Reformed Church in the United States. Publication and Sunday school board

History of the Swiss Reformed Church since the Reformation. Reformed Church in the United States. Publication and Sunday School Board.

2024年4月15日 · Within Switzerland, three significant Protestant movements were conceived, two of which merged to produce the Reformed Church. Those two traditions were birthed by Huldreich or Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531) and John Calvin (1509-1564). In northern Switzerland, the German-speaking cantons followed the theology of Zwingli.

Aretius, Benedictus – A Short History of Valentinus Gentilis: the Tritheist, tried, condemned and put to death by the Protestant reformed city and church of Bern in Switzerland, for Asserting the Three Divine Persons of the Trinity to be Three Distinct, Eternal Spirits, etc. (London, 1696)