The Church of Christ in Japan

Japanese: 日本基督公会 - にほんきりすとこうかい

The first Protestant church in Japan was founded in 1872 in Yamashita-cho, Yokohama by students of the Bara School. With J. Bara as interim pastor, Ogawa Yoshitsune as elder, and 11 others including Oshikawa Masayoshi, the church aimed to be purely evangelical and non-denominational. It then spread nationwide to Tokyo, Kobe, Osaka, Hirosaki, Ueda, and Nagasaki, and the church that eventually merged with the Presbyterian Church became known as the United Church of Christ in Japan, and the other three streams included the United Church of Christ in Japan and the Methodist Church in Japan.

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Japanese:

明治5 (1872) 年バラ学校に学ぶ人たちで横浜山下町に創立された日本最初のプロテスタント教会。 J.バラを仮牧師，小川義綏を長老に，押川方義ら 11名で，純粋な福音主義に立ち，いずれの教派にも属さない無教派主義に立つことを目指した。その後，東京，神戸，大阪，弘前，上田，長崎と全国的に広まり，やがて長老教会と一致したものは，日本基督一致教会と称し，ほかに日本組合基督教会，日本メソジスト教会などの3つの流れとなっていった。

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