Protestant Church in Germany
The Protestant Evangelical Church in Germany (German: Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, abbreviated EKD) is a group of 20 regional churches. They are made up of two Reformed (Calvinist), 9 Lutheran and 9 United (Lutheran-Reformed) churches.
The Moravian Church and the Federation of Evangelical Reformed Congregations are associate members.
The Evangelical Church in Germany is not a church like the Church of England or the Roman Catholic Church. This is because it is not one big church which share the same system of beliefs, instead it is a collection of churches which allow its members to share in church services and worship.
Protestant Church In Germany Media
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Front page of the Peace of Augsburg, which laid the legal groundwork for two co-existing religious confessions (Catholicism and Lutheranism) in the German-speaking states of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Synodal elections 1933: German Christians and Confessing Church campaigners in Berlin.
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Member churches by confession
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Irmgard Schwaetzer, praeses of the synod till 2021
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Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, former chairman of the Council of the EKD.
EKD Protestants according to the 2011 census.
Red denotes states in which EKD Protestants outnumber Catholics.
Another version, as used by German Protestants.
