Louis Francescon
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| Born | March 29, 1866 Cavasso Nuovo, Italy |
| Died | September 7, 1964 (aged 98) Oak Park, Illinois, United States |
| Occupation(s) | missionary and evangelist |
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Louis Francescon (March 29, 1866 – September 7, 1964) was a
Christian Congregation of Brazil
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Biography
Coming from a poor family, he was the son of Pietro Francescon (born in 1830 in Cavasso Nuovo of Antonio Francescon and Elisabetta Zanussi) and Maria Lovisa (born in 1844 in Cavasso Nuovo of Osvaldo Lovisa and Angela Serena). He did not complete high school. Francescon was born in
Presbyterian mission that later was incorporated as the First Italian Presbyterian Church of Chicago. In 1907, Francescon had contact with the North Avenue Full Gospel Mission, pastored William Howard Durham, and accepted Pentecostalism. He was elected one of the elders of the Assemblea Cristiana, an independent evangelical
Italian church which had embraced Pentecostal teaching and became the mother-church for the Italian Pentecostal movement.
Francescon started churches in Los Angeles, St. Louis, and Philadelphia before departing on missions abroad. He went to Argentina, Brazil and Europe. From his work emerged several denominations, such as the
Christian Congregation of Brazil. However, Francescon was opposed to formally organizing a denomination, and he eventually left the CCNA. Some CCNA congregations followed him and became known as the Christian Congregations.[1]
They retain much of Francescon's nondenominational emphasis. At the time of his death in 1964, he was serving as the senior elder of the Christian Congregation Church in Chicago.
Publications
- Faithful Testimony. Self-published, Chicago 1948, 1952.
Notes
- JSTOR 2393340.
References
- Bongiovanni, Guy. Pioneers of the Faith. Christian Church of North America, 1977.
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