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The Dutch Reformed Church in Bloemfontein, South Africa is the fourth oldest congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa in the Free State Synod, but the 39th in the Church. The parish was founded on 30 November 1848, the same year as Fauresmith (11 March) and Smithfield (23 November). [1]
The first covered the Cape region, the second all the other provinces of South Africa, including Namibia. In each province separate churches for blacks and coloureds were formed. The Free State had its own mission church already in 1910. In the Cape a separate "Dutch Reformed Bantu Church" was formed in 1951.
The Christian Reformed Church in South Africa is a Christian denomination in South Africa. The moderator is Rev. R du Toit, the Vice Moderator is Rev. Johnnie Tromp. [2]
Bloemfontein has a large and diverse Christian population. The city houses several churches and denominations: It is the seat of the Anglican Diocese of the Free State; Afrikaans Baptist Church (Afrikaans: Afrikaanse Baptiste Kerk) Dutch Reformed Church (Afrikaans: Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk)
The Christian Reformed Church (CRC) split from the Reformed Church in America (then known as the Dutch Reformed Church) in an 1857 secession.This was rooted in part as a result of a theological dispute that originated in the Netherlands in which Hendrik De Cock was deposed for his Calvinist convictions, leading there to the Secession of 1834–35.
The Netherlands Reformed Church recognizes two Sacraments: Holy Baptism and Lord's Supper. Children of members are usually baptized in the weeks or months following birth. The Lord's Supper, on the other hand, is usually held about four or five times per year although this may vary among individual churches.
The original name of the church was Christian Reformed Church in the Netherlands (Christelijke Gereformeerde Kerk in Nederland, CGKN).The church was formed in 1869 by the merger of two churches, the Reformed Churches under the Cross and the Separated Christian Congregations, both separated from the Dutch Reformed Church in 1834; an event known as the Afscheiding.
Some years later, to aid the mission work of the church and oversight, the Anglican Diocese of Kimberley and Kuruman was established in 1911. [3] This was repeated again in 1950 with the formation of the Anglican Diocese of Lesotho (then, Basutoland) and in 1952, with the founding of the Anglican Diocese of Matabeleland .