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Reformed Church of France (Huguenots)

Reformed and Presbyterian · 1559 · France; refuge diaspora

France's Reformed church organized nationally in 1559 amid persecution, growing from a handful of represented congregations to a reported 2,150 churches by 1561; the wars of religion, the Edict of Nantes (1598), and the Revocation (1685) with its refugee diaspora are the node's timeline annotations.

Reformed Church of France (Huguenots) was formed in 1559. Reformed Church of France (Huguenots) continues today. Reformed Church of France (Huguenots)'s institutional line runs back through Reformed, Roman Catholicism to the post-apostolic church. No body on this tree is the assembly of Acts 2; where a body claims that, the claim appears in the claimed-lineage layer.

Between the post-apostolic church and Reformed Church of France (Huguenots) stand 2 divisions along the institutional line, counting separations and disputed forks, not mergers, renewals or national organizations.

At a glance

Formed
In 1559
Family
Reformed and Presbyterian
Region
France; refuge diaspora
Key figures
John Calvin (influence), Antoine de la Roche Chandieu, Théodore de Bèze
Cause tags
Doctrine, Politics
Also known as
Huguenots; French Reformed Church

What it was organized out of

  • National organization of Reformed, not a separation from it.

On the tree

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Solid lines are separations and unions; dashed lines are renewals that began inside a body; dotted gray lines are national organizations of one communion; a diamond marks a fork event where neither side is drawn as the one that left. Every line runs back to the post-apostolic church; no body descends from the assembly of Acts 2.

Sources

Research compiled July 2026. Page data built 2026-10-10.