The Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches (PCEC) is a national evangelical alliance in the Philippines, member of the World Evangelical Alliance. With 89 Christian denominations members, and more than 200 para-church organizations in the Philippines, Evangelicals in the Philippines reportedly have 5,246,914 adherents according to the 2020 Philippine census, making Evangelical Christianity as the third (3rd) largest denomination in the country. The head office is in Quezon City, Philippines.
History The PCEC was established by evangelical denominations in 1965. Kenneth Ross, Christianity in East and Southeast Asia, Edinburgh University Press, Scotland, 2020, p. 323
In 2011, Dr. Cesar Vicente P. Punzalan, Deputy National Director of the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches, estimated that 12% of the population were members of PCEC churches.STATE OF THE PHILIPPINE EVANGELICAL CHURCH TODAY: A POSITIVE RESPONSE
The 2015 Philippine census by the Philippine Statistics Authority found that 2.4 percent of the population of 101 million were members of PCEC churches, making it the fourth largest faith group in the Philippines after the Catholic Church (79.5%), Islam (6.0%), and Iglesia ni Cristo; and down from 2.7% in 2010.
As of 2020, it has 78 Christian denominations and 200 member organizations. Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches, Members, pcec.org.ph, Philippine, retrieved December 5, 2020World Evangelical Alliance, REGIONAL & NATIONAL ALLIANCES, worldevangelicals.org, USA, retrieved December 5, 2020
See also National Council of Churches in the Philippines Christianity in the Philippines Evangelicalism in the Philippines
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External links Official Website of the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches