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Indonesia is primarily Muslim, but Catholicism is the dominant faith in certain areas of the country. The Church is organised into one military ordinariate, 10 archdioceses and 28 dioceses, all of which are members of the Indonesian Catholic Bishops Conference (KWI) [ 3 ] led now by Bishop Antonius Subianto Bunjamin from the Diocese of Bandung .
Idris Instructing his Children, Double page from the manuscript of Qisas al-Anbiya by Ishaq ibn Ibrahim al-Nishapuri. Iran (probably Qazvin), 1570–80. Chester Beatty Library. Idris (Arabic: إدريس, romanized: ʾIdrīs) is an ancient prophet mentioned in the Qur'an, who Muslims believe was the second prophet after Adam.
Idris' grandfather Abdallah Fakhr al-Din was the sixteenth Da'i al-Mutlaq, followed by his father al-Hasan Badr al-Din I, and after his death in 1418 by his uncle Ali Shams al-Din II, who died in 1428. [1] As a youth, Idris received a thorough education, and was active in the governance of the Tayyibi community.
Blenduk Church in Semarang, built in European architecture Betlehem Church in Wamena, Highland Papua Protestants in each regency of Indonesia. Protestantism (Indonesian: Protestanisme) is one of the six approved religions in Indonesia, the others being Islam, Roman Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism.
Indonesia's 29.4 million Christians constituted 10.47% of the country's population in 2023, with 7.41% Protestant (20.8 million) and 3.06% Catholic (8.6 million). Some provinces in Indonesia are majority Christian. In Indonesia, the word Kristen (lit. ' Christian ') refers to Protestantism, while Catholicism is referred to as Katolik.
The Protestant Church in Indonesia was formed in Ambon, Maluku, in 1605 under the name of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands Indies, in Dutch De Protestantsche Kerk in Nederlandsch-Indië. It is the first Protestant and Reformed church to be founded in Asia. In 1619, the headquarters was moved to Batavia.
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Facing the political and social turbulence in Indonesia (Indonesian killings of 1965–66 while in the Transition to the New Order), then at the great plenary session in 1967, the synod decided to change the church name to West Kalimantan Christian Church (Chinese: 西加基督教會, Indonesian: Gereja Kristen Kalimantan Barat), abbreviated as ...