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diffchange-inline">churches</ins> <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in</ins> <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the</ins> Reformed tradition <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">spread</ins> <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">either</ins> by <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">European</ins> <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">immigration,</ins> <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">or</ins> <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">European</ins> <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and</ins> <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">North</ins> <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">American</ins> <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">missionary</ins> <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">work</ins>.</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-deleted"></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty 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Perkins (theologian)">William Perkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franciscus_Gomarus" title="Franciscus Gomarus">Franciscus Gomarus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Twisse" title="William Twisse">William Twisse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moses_Amyraut" title="Moses Amyraut">Moses Amyraut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Rutherford" title="Samuel Rutherford">Samuel Rutherford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Owen_(theologian)" title="John Owen (theologian)">John Owen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Turretin" title="Francis Turretin">Francis Turretin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Baxter" title="Richard Baxter">Richard Baxter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Edwards_(theologian)" title="Jonathan Edwards (theologian)">Jonathan Edwards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Schleiermacher" title="Friedrich Schleiermacher">Friedrich Schleiermacher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Schaff" title="Philip Schaff">Philip Schaff</a></li> <li><a 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B. Warfield">B. B. Warfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._Gresham_Machen" title="J. Gresham Machen">John Machen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geerhardus_Vos" title="Geerhardus Vos">Geerhardus Vos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Barth" title="Karl Barth">Karl Barth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._Richard_Niebuhr" title="H. Richard Niebuhr">H. Richard Niebuhr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reinhold_Niebuhr" title="Reinhold Niebuhr">Reinhold Niebuhr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cornelius_Van_Til" title="Cornelius Van Til">Cornelius Van Til</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_F._Torrance" title="Thomas F. Torrance">T. F. Torrance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Moltmann" title="Jürgen Moltmann">Jürgen Moltmann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._I._Packer" title="J. I. Packer">J. I. Packer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_G._Bloesch" title="Donald G. Bloesch">Donald G. 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Continental Reformed churches are descended from the <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Reformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant Reformation">Protestant Reformation</a> in respective European countries. Notably, their theology is largely derived from the <a href="/wiki/Swiss_Reformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Swiss Reformation">Swiss Reformation</a>, as Switzerland (specifically <a href="/wiki/Geneva" title="Geneva">Geneva</a> and <a href="/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich" class="mw-redirect" title="Zürich">Zürich</a>) was a base for the most influential Reformed theologians of the era. It was inaugurated by <a href="/wiki/Huldrych_Zwingli" title="Huldrych Zwingli">Huldrych Zwingli</a>, who formulated the first expression of the Reformed faith. Swiss Reformation was more fully articulated by <a href="/wiki/Martin_Bucer" title="Martin Bucer">Martin Bucer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Bullinger" title="Heinrich Bullinger">Heinrich Bullinger</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Calvin" title="John Calvin">John Calvin</a>. In the sixteenth century, the movement spread to most of continental Europe, sometimes aligning and secured by monarchs and other nobles, like in Switzerland, Hungary, and France. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Swiss_Reformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Swiss Reformation">Swiss Reformation</a> and <a href="/wiki/History_of_Calvinism" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Calvinism">History of Calvinism</a></div> <p>The first Reformed churches were established in Europe after 1519 and were part of the <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Reformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant Reformation">Protestant Reformation</a>. </p><p>Reformed doctrine is expressed in <a href="/wiki/Reformed_Christian_confessions_of_faith" class="mw-redirect" title="Reformed Christian confessions of faith">various confessions</a>. 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This is usually called <a href="/wiki/Synod" title="Synod">Synodal government</a> by the continental Reformed, but is essentially the same as <a href="/wiki/Presbyterian_polity" title="Presbyterian polity">presbyterian polity</a>, with the elders forming the <i><a href="/wiki/Consistory_(Protestantism)#Reformed_usage" title="Consistory (Protestantism)">consistory</a></i>, the regional governing body known as the <i>classis</i>, and the highest court of appeal being the <i>general synod</i>. The <a href="/wiki/Reformed_Church_in_Hungary" title="Reformed Church in Hungary">Reformed Church in Hungary</a>, its <a href="/wiki/Reformed_Church_of_Romania" class="mw-redirect" title="Reformed Church of Romania">sister church in Romania</a>, the Hungarian Reformed Church in America, and the <a href="/wiki/Polish_Reformed_Church" title="Polish Reformed Church">Polish Reformed Church</a> are the only continental Reformed churches to have retained the office of <a href="/wiki/Bishop" title="Bishop">bishop</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reformed_churches_worldwide">Reformed churches worldwide</h2></div> <p>Many churches in the Reformed tradition spread either by European immigration, or European and North American missionary work. </p><p>A comprehensive list of Continental Reformed churches <a href="/wiki/List_of_Reformed_churches#Europe" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Reformed churches">can be found here</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 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