Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren
Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren | |
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Reformed Bohemian | |
Polity | Presbyterian |
Associations | World Council of Churches Communion of Protestant Churches in Europe Conference of European Churches Lutheran World Federation World Communion of Reformed Churches. |
Region | Czech Republic |
Origin | 17 December 1918 |
Official website | www |
The Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren (ECCB) (
In 2019, the church reported 69,715 baptized members[1] in more than 260 local congregations, which are broken down into 14 seniorates (presbyteries) throughout the Czech Republic. Its membership peaked in 1950 with 402,000 members.[2] Since the end of Communist rule, the Czech Republic's censuses have recorded 203,996 members in 1991,[2] 117,212 in 2001,[3] and 51,936 in 2011.[4]
In May 2023, the Church synod voted to allow blessing of same-sex couples.[5]
Origins
The ECCB was established in 1918 by the unification of all Lutheran and Calvinist churches in
The ECCB is a member of the World Council of Churches, the Communion of Protestant Churches in Europe, the Conference of European Churches, the Lutheran World Federation, and the World Communion of Reformed Churches.[7]
References
- ^ LWF Statistics - Czech-republic Archived 2020-07-23 at the Wayback Machine The Lutheran World Federation
- ^ a b "Tisíc let obyvatelstva v českých zemích". Snem.cirkev.cz. 2009-06-12. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2015-11-21.
- ^ "Katalog produktů | ČSÚ". Czso.cz. 2014-10-24. Archived from the original on 2016-03-10. Retrieved 2015-11-21.
- ^ "Úvodní stránka | SLDB 2011" (PDF). Czso.cz. 2014-11-14. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-11-04. Retrieved 2015-11-21.
- ^ Postoj. "Českobratrská církev evangelická bude požehnávať páry rovnakého pohlavia". svetkrestanstva.postoj.sk (in Slovak). Archived from the original on 2023-06-02. Retrieved 2023-06-02.
- ^ Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren. "Od vzniku církve" (in Czech). e-cirkev.cz. Archived from the original on 14 February 2018. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
- ^ Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren. "Ecumenical relations". e-cirkev.cz. Archived from the original on 14 February 2018. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
Further reading
- Abrams, Bradley F. (2004). "Socialism and Protestant Intellectuals: The "Kingdom of God on Earth"?". The Struggle for the Soul of the Nation: Czech Culture and the Rise of Communism. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7425-3023-2.
- Cameron, Helen (1989). "Seventy Years of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren (1918-88)" (PDF). Religion in Communist Lands. 17 (3): 230–246. .
- Matějka, Ondřej (2022). ""The 'Proton Pseudos' of Our Life After May 1945": Czech Protestants and the Expulsion of Sudeten Germans". Collective Identities and Post-War Violence in Europe, 1944–48: Reshaping the Nation. Springer International Publishing. pp. 165–194. ISBN 978-3-030-78386-0.
- Nešpor, Zdeněk R.; Vojtíšek, Zdeněk (2016). Encyklopedie menších křesťanských církví v České republice [Encyclopedia of smaller Christian churches in the Czech Republic] (in Czech). ISBN 978-80-246-3315-2.
- Závorková, Petra (2008). "Dvě církve, dva sbory a život v nich: českobratrská církev evangelická a církev bratrská v sociologické komparaci" [Two churches, two congregations and life in them: the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren and the Fraternal Church in a sociological comparison]. Sacra (in Czech). 6 (1): 41–57. ISSN 1214-5351.