List of Reformed denominations
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The Reformed churches are a group of Protestant denominations connected by a common Calvinist system of doctrine.
Europe
Albania
Reformed Church in Durrës mission of the PCA
Emmanuel reformed church in Tirana
Armenia
Congregational Churches in Armenia
Austria
Reformed Church in Austria
Evangelical Reformed Church (Westminster Confession)
Azerbaijan
International Presbyterian Church, Baku
Belarus
Belarusian Evangelical Reformed Church
Belgium
United Protestant Church in Belgium
Bulgaria
Union of Evangelical Congregational Churches in Bulgaria
Croatia
The Reformed Christian Calvinist Church in Croatia was part of the Hungarian Reformed Church. It is a member of the World Communion of Reformed Churches.
The Protestant Reformed Christian Church in Croatia is an Anglican church which split from the Reformed Christian Calvinist Church in Croatia in 2001.
Cyprus
Greek Evangelical Church
Trinity Community Christian Fellowship in Larnaca, Cyprus
Czech Republic
Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren
Church of the Brethren in the Czech Republic or Evangelical Brethren Church in the Czech Republic - Czech Republic and Slovakia
Denmark
Reformed Synod of Denmark
German Reformed of Copenhagen
Reformed Congregation in Fredericia
Finland
Christ Church of Oulu
France
In France, the Calvinist Protestants were called Huguenots. The Reformed Church of France survived under persecution from 1559 until the Edict of Nantes (1598), the effect of which was to establish regions in which Protestants could live unmolested. These areas became centers of political resistance under which the Calvinist church was protected until 1628, when La Rochelle, the Protestant center of resistance to Louis XIII, was overrun by a French army blockade. After the Protestant resistance failed, the Reformed Church of France reorganized, and was guaranteed toleration under the Edict of Nantes until the final revocation of toleration in 1685 (Edict of Fontainebleau). The periods of persecution scattered French Reformed refugees to England, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Africa (especially South Africa), and America. Louis XVI granted an edict of toleration.
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