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The Polish Reformed Church, officially called the ''Evangelical Reformed Church in the republic of Poland'' (Polish: ''Kościół Ewangelicko-Reformowany w RP'') is a historic Protestant church in Poland established in the 16th century, still in existence today. ==Structure and organisation== An internal census showed that in 2004 the Polish Reformed Church had ca. 3500 members. These were spread over eight congregations in Poland: * Warsaw * Łódź * Zelów * Bełchatów * Kleszczów * Żychlin * Strzelin Furthermore, emerging congregations exist in some other cities, including Poznań, Wrocław, and Gdańsk. In 2003 the Church ordained its first woman minister and two more female students are in training. The Polish Reformed Church is a minority church in Poland, where roughly 90% of the people are Roman Catholics. One of Poland's other religious minorities is the larger Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland, a Lutheran Protestant church with around 80,000 members. The church is administered by a consistory elected every three years, and chaired by a layperson. The official representative of the church is its Bishop, elected for a ten-year term. The highest ecclesiastical governing body is the synod, which convenes every year and has lay and clergy delegates from all of its congregations. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Polish Reformed Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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