Encyclopaedia Britannica's topic overview of mainline Protestantism, covering its member denominations and the 1908 founding of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America in Philadelphia as the tradition's first sustained cooperative institution. Use for that founding date and place; not a peer reviewed source and not used here for any claim needing one.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica's topic overview of mainline Protestantism is written and edited in-house without an academic peer review process, the middle tier reflecting a professionally fact checked general reference rather than a specialist source on American Protestant history. NotesGeneral reference encyclopedia entry, continuously revised online, so it carries no single publication year and none is recorded here for that reason. Used only for the 1908 Federal Council of Churches founding date and location, independently corroborated against Wikipedia, the Presbyterian Historical Society's own archive guide and a Cambridge Core academic article, not for any claim needing peer reviewed support.
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AuthorEncyclopaedia Britannica editors
PublisherEncyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
URLhttps://www.britannica.com/topic/mainline-Protestantism
Source Typeencyclopedia
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