Congregational Federation of Australia and New Zealand

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The '''Congregational Federation of Australia and New Zealand''' is a [[Congregational church|Congregational]] denomination originally comprising fourteen congregations in [[New South Wales]] and [[Queensland]] but now including congregations in New Zealand.<ref name=cfanz-aboutus>{{cite web|title=About us|url=http://cfanz.org.au/cfanz.org.au/About_Us.html|website=The Congregational Federation of Australia and New Zealand|accessdate=31 December 2015}}</ref>

==History== Forty congregations of the [[Congregational Union of Australia]] decided not to join the [[Uniting Church in Australia]] in 1977, and some formed the New South Wales based [[Fellowship of Congregational Churches]]. Other remained independent. Others formed the Queensland Congregational Fellowship.

In July 1995 the [[Christian ecumenism|ecumenically]] minded congregations left the Fellowship of Congregational Churches because of its conservative and non-ecumenical orientation and with other churches who had remained outside the Uniting Church including the Queensland Congregational Fellowship formed the Congregational Federation of Australia, now the Congregational Federation of Australia and New Zealand.<ref name=cfanz-aboutus/> The Federation has also attracted Samoan, Western Samoan, Filipino and Tokelauan churches meeting in Australia and New Zealand.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reformiert-online.net/adressen/detail.php?id=1243&lg=eng|title=Address data base of Reformed churches and institutions|work=reformiert-online.net}}</ref>

==Affiliations== *[[National Council of Churches in Australia]] *[[International Congregational Fellowship]] *[[World Communion of Reformed Churches]]<ref name=cfanz-welcome>{{cite web|title=Welcome|url=http://cfanz.org.au/cfanz.org.au/Welcome.html|website=Congregational Federation of Australia and New Zealand|accessdate=31 December 2015}}</ref>

== References == *Source: [https://web.archive.org/web/20060819162042/http://nat.uca.org.au/cunity/churchesjoin/cjgeneraldocs/localecumenismkit/cjlocalecukit25app2_2.htm Description of '''The Congregational Federation of NSW'''] at [[Uniting Church in Australia]], Christian Unity site "Appendix 2. Understanding the Member Churches of the NSW Ecumenical Council" {{Reflist}}

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