Christian congregation in Brazil

The Congregação Cristã No Brasil , appeared in March 1910 with the Brésil, founded by Luigi Francescon, Italian born the March 29th 1866 with Cavasso Nuovo, in the province of Udine (Italy).

He emigrates with the the United States in 1890 and arrives the March 3rd of the same year at Chicago, where he has its first contact with the Évangile of the Christ by the means of the Église of Vaud. He founds shortly after the Italian Église presbytérienne with some believers, but deviates some after some time because of a reflection which he had on the baptism by sprinkling. In 1907 it is interested in the movement pentecotist then flourishing through his meeting with the Pasteur Baptist William H. Durham, one of its pioneers, who baptizes it in the the Holy Spirit. In 1909, Louis Francescon and one of his friends arrive to Argentina and, the March 8th 1910, at Brazil. Installed in São Paulo and in Paraná, they founded as of their arrival a church with twenty renamed people coming from the Culte S Baptist, Presbytérien, Méthodiste, and a catholic. Its surface of predilection was mainly the Italian colonies, but its movement was spread, starting from 1950, on all the national territory, being especially numerous in the South-eastern area.

With the name of Congregação Cristã, this church is present at the United States, in Europe, with the Japan, in all the Latin America, in Russia and Greece. In 2005, it had more 19 000 centers of share the world and more than 2,5 million faithful.

The Christian Congregation was launched to France in the Années 1970, in the north of the country, the Portuguese community. There are ten churches today, with an head office with Tourcoing.

Louis Francescon is deceased in 1964 with Oak Park (Illinois), in the United States.

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