<Tr> <Th> Members </Th> <Td> 2 million adherents (2011 census) 413,717 registered (baptized) members </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Official website </Th> <Td> united-church.ca </Td> </Tr> <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> Membership peaked in 1964 at 1.1 million, and has declined since that time . From 1991 to 2001, the number of people claiming an affiliation with the United Church decreased by 8%, the third largest decrease in mainstream Christian denominations in Canada . Church statistics for the end of 2014 showed 413,717 members in 327,847 households under pastoral care . As of December 31, 2016, 132,459 people attend services in 2,141 communities of faith representing 2,834 congregations on a regular basis . </P>

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