United Church of Christ

The United Church of Christ (UCC) is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination based in the United States. It is a United Protestant denomination that formed as the result of a merger of the General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches, the Evangelical and Reformed Church, and the Afro-Christian Convention, denominations which were themselves the result of earlier unions of churches in the Anabaptist, Congregational, Continental Reformed, Lutheran, and Restorationist traditions. The churches that came into the UCC through the General Council of Congregational Christian Churches can trace their historic roots back to the New England Puritans. Moreover, it also subsumed the third largest Calvinist group in the country, the German Reformed.