The PCEC was established by evangelical denominations in 1965.[3]
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.[4]
^Member churches of thePhilippine Council of Evangelical Churches (PCEC) have a total of 2,469,957 members according to the 2010Philippine census, makingEvangelicalChristianity as the third largest denomination in the Philippines. Evangelical population is also larger than that of theIglesia ni Cristo or INC (which reportedly had 2,251,941 adherents in 2010). However, the total count was not reflected as member churches were treated separately in the 2020Philippine census. The total number of adherents for Evangelical and PCEC member churches listed in the 2020Philippine census would be 5,246,914 or 4.8 percent of the Filipino population. Adherents of member churches of theNational Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP), meanwhile, total to 2,995,642 for the 2020Philippine census, or 2.8 percent. This makes the NCCP as the fourth largest denomination in the Philippines after the Evangelicals, and theIglesia ni Cristo (INC) as the fifth largest.[2]
