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Besides the smaller Protestant denominations of the Mennonites, Baptists and Methodists, which were organised crossing state borders along denominational lines, there were 29 (later 28) church bodies organised according to the territorial borders of the German states or the Prussian provinces. [2]
Most WELS churches use Christian Worship: A Lutheran Hymnal, with some using the 1941 Lutheran Hymnal [95] or no hymnal at all. In 1911, the Wisconsin Synod published Church Hymnal for Lutheran Services. [96] Christian Worship: Hymnal is a new hymnal published by Northwestern Publishing House. [97] It was released during the Advent season, 2021.
The spreading of Protestant architecture was slower in other parts of Germany, however, such as the city of Cologne where its first Protestant church was constructed in 1857. [28] Large Protestant places of worship were commissioned across Germany, such as the Garrison Church in the city of Ulm built in 1910 which could hold 2,000 congregants. [29]
Lutheranism is present on all inhabited continents with an estimated 80 million adherents, [3] out of which 74.2 million are affiliated with the Lutheran World Federation.A major movement that first began the Reformation, it constitutes one of the largest Protestant branches claiming around 80 million out of 920 million Protestants. [4]
The Protestant Reformation was the first successful challenge to the Catholic Church and began in 1521 as Luther was outlawed at the Diet of Worms after his refusal to repent. The ideas of the reformation spread rapidly, as the new technology of the modern printing press ensured cheap mass copies and distribution of the theses and helped by the ...
Eventually, the fascist German Christians movement forced the final national merger of Lutherans and Reformed into a single Reich Church, the German Protestant Church in 1933. After World War II, the German Protestant Church was re-founded with the new name Protestant Church in Germany.
At its foundation in 1871, about two-thirds of the population of the German Empire belonged to a state Protestant church; [a] in 2021 the Protestant Church in Germany was the faith of 23.7%. In 1871, one-third of the population was Catholic; in 2021 its membership was 26.0%. Other faiths have existed in the state, but never achieved the ...
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]