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The Protestant church has influenced changes in wider culture in Germany, contributing to the debate around bioethics and stem cell research. [25] The Protestant leadership in Germany is divided on the issue of stem cell research; however, those opposing liberalising laws have characterised it as a threat to the sanctity of human life. [26]
The Evangelical Church in Germany (German: Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, EKD), also known as the Protestant Church in Germany, is a federation of twenty Lutheran, Reformed, and United Protestant regional Churches in Germany, collectively encompassing the vast majority of the country's Protestants. [4]
The census in 2011 found that Christianity was the religion of 53,257,550 people or 66.8% of the total population, among whom 24,869,380 or 31.2% were Catholics, 24,552,110 or 30.8% were Protestants of the Protestant Church in Germany, 714,360 or 0.9% were members of Protestant free churches, and 1,050,740 or 1.3% were members of Eastern ...
Pages in category "German Protestants" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 323 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
German Protestants (20 C, 323 P) H. History of Protestantism in Germany (4 C, 13 P) L. Lutheranism in Germany (5 C, 24 P) M. Protestant missionaries in Germany (1 C ...
During the Protestant Reformation, Bavaria (consisting at that point only of what is today called Altbayern) remained predominantly Catholic.In the early 19th century, the largely Protestant Palatinate and Franconia were annexed to the Kingdom of Bavaria, and all Protestant churches in the kingdom were administratively subordinated in 1817 to an upper consistory in Munich and an umbrella, the ...
At least 1,259 people working for the Protestant Church of Germany have committed sexual abuse in the last decades and at least 2,225 victims were affected by the abuse according to an independent ...
On 28 June Jäger appointed Müller as new Reich's Bishop and on 6 July as leader of the Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union, then with 18 million parishioners by far the biggest Protestant church body within Germany, with 41 million Protestants altogether (total population: 62 millions). [47]