The Evangelical Reformed Church in Valais or in French the ÃÂglise réformée évangélique du Valais or Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche des Wallis is a Reformed cantonal State church in Valais.
It has 12 parishes and 17 ministers represents more than 20,000 members, but the number is increasing, because the move of the Reformed people to the canton from other Swiss cantons. It has 12 congregations in the Canton, in Brig, Visp, Leukerbad, Sierre, Crans-Montana, Sion, Coude Rhone Martigny-Saxon, 2 Rivers, Monthey, Haut-Lac. Women ordination is allowed.
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- Schlaeppi, François: Der Protestantismus ein Platz in der Walliser Gesellschaft. Einige geschichtliche Notizen gesammelt aus Anlass des [sic] 70-Jahr-Feier der Verfassung der Evangelisch-reformierten Kirche des Wallis 1949 - 2019. O.O., 2021. [As a bilingual booklet at the same time: Schlaeppi, François: Le protestantisme une place dans la société valaisanne. Quelques notes d'histoire rassemblées àl'occasion du 70ème anniversaire de la constitution de l'Eglise réformée évangélique du Valais 1949 - 2019]. (Also includes a bibliography with French-language titles).