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The Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Dutch: Evangelisch-Lutherse Kerk in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden) was a denomination in the Netherlands which under that name existed from 1818 to 2004.
It was founded on 1 May 2004 as the merger of the vast majority of the Dutch Reformed Church, the vast majority of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. [2] [3] The merger was the culmination of an organizational process started in 1961. Several orthodox Reformed and ...
The PKN was formed in 2004 as a merger of the two major strands of Calvinism: the Dutch Reformed Church (which then represented roughly 8.5% of the population) and the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (then 3.7% of the population), plus a smaller Lutheran Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (0.1% ...
Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of Moldova; Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands; Church of Norway, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway; Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia and Other States; Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria; Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Augsburg Confession, Kisač, Serbia ...
The church functioned until 2004, the year it merged with the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands to form the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN), a united church of both Reformed and Evangelical Lutheran theological orientations. At the time of the merger, the Church ...
For members of the former Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Evangelisch-Lutherse Kerk in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden), the church merged into the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (Protestantse Kerk in Nederland) on 1 May 2004, with the former Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland), and the former Dutch Reformed Church ...
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, Germany (2.3) [17] The Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria (2.2) [18] Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany (2.1) [17] Evangelical Lutheran Church in Württemberg (2.0) [17] Protestant Church in the Netherlands (1.7) [19] Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia (0.9) [20]
The long process of reuniting with the Dutch Reformed Church began in 1962 and ended on May 1, 2004, when the GKN, the NHK and the Evangelical Lutheran Church merged to form the Protestant Church in the Netherlands. At that time, the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands had around 675,000 members, 400,000 of whom were churchgoers.