ABSTRACT
The Gallican Confession is the earliest comprehensive statement of belief for the Reformed Churches of FRANCE. Delegates to the first National Synod, meeting secretly at Paris, adopted the text in May 1559. The seventh National Synod, held at La Rochelle in 1571, meticulously reexamined and confirmed the various articles. Accordingly, the declaration is also known as the Confession of Faith of La Rochelle. Subsequent gatherings of the national SYNOD reviewed and made minor modifications into the seventeenth century. Although the CONFESSION appears to have fallen into disuse after the 1650s, it was not officially superseded until 1872.
