<P> The United Church of Canada ( French : Église unie du Canada ) is a mainline Reformed denomination and the largest Protestant Christian denomination in Canada , and the largest Canadian Christian denomination after the Catholic Church . In 2011 , Statistics Canada reported approximately 2 million people identifying as adherents . The United Church was founded in 1925 as a merger of four Protestant denominations with a total combined membership of about 600,000 members : the Methodist Church , Canada , the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec , two - thirds of the congregations of the Presbyterian Church in Canada , and the Association of Local Union Churches , a movement predominantly of the Canadian Prairie provinces . The Canadian Conference of the Evangelical United Brethren Church joined the United Church of Canada on January 1 , 1968 . </P>
<P> The United Church of Canada ( French : Église unie du Canada ) is a mainline Reformed denomination and the largest Protestant Christian denomination in Canada , and the largest Canadian Christian denomination after the Catholic Church . In 2011 , Statistics Canada reported approximately 2 million people identifying as adherents . The United Church was founded in 1925 as a merger of four Protestant denominations with a total combined membership of about 600,000 members : the Methodist Church , Canada , the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec , two - thirds of the congregations of the Presbyterian Church in Canada , and the Association of Local Union Churches , a movement predominantly of the Canadian Prairie provinces . The Canadian Conference of the Evangelical United Brethren Church joined the United Church of Canada on January 1 , 1968 . </P>
when did the united church of canada form
when did the united church of canada form
1925
1925