Evangelical Church of the Palatinate

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Evangelische Kirche der Pfalz
Union Evangelischer Kirchen
Region5.928 km² in Palatinate (in today's Rhineland-Palatinate, parts of Saarland)
HeadquartersSpeyer, Germany
Origin1818; 1848
Members482.731 (2020)
30,6% of total population[1]
Official websitehttps://www.evkirchepfalz.de
Karte der Evangelischen Kirche der Pfalz

Evangelical Church of the Palatinate (

Calvinist
orientations.

The seat of the church is in

Roman Catholic party urged for religious unity in the Holy Roman Empire, it dismissed all those participants who argued against an Imperial Ban on Luther as "Protestants"; it has since entered various other languages beside German language, and became a dominant term to describe churches coming out of the Reformation, as well as all these derived from them. It is the only EKD member church to formally use the word Protestant (protestantisch in German language) in its name, since most EKD member churches call themselves Evangelical (evangelisch in German language
).

It is a full member of the

Reformed churches of the EKD. As of December 2020, the regional church
had 482,731 members in 431 parishes.

The Evangelical Church of the Palatinate is a member of the

Gedächtniskirche in Speyer. Because the church has no bishop, it is not a cathedral
.

History

Since 1816, the Palatine Reformed and Lutheran congregations were subordinate to the Protestant church administration of the Kingdom of Bavaria, of which the then Governorate of the Palatinate formed a part. Following the parishioners' plebiscite in 1817, all Palatine Lutheran and Reformed congregations merged into confessionally united Protestant congregations. In 1848, the Palatine Protestant congregations formed a regional church, then called Vereinigte protestantisch-evangelisch-christliche Kirche der Pfalz (Pfälzische Landeskirche) (i.e. United Protestant Evangelical Christian Church of the Palatinate [Palatine State Church]), independent of that regional church in the rest of Bavaria. In 1922, the United Church of the Palatinate counted 506,000 parishioners.[2]

The official Palatine church body became a destroyed church (

Protestant Church of Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine
.

Practices

blessing of same-sex marriages were allowed.[4]
[5]

Elected leaders

The leading person is the "Kirchenpräsident" (Church President), until 1921 titled Konsistorialdirektor (consistorial director), which is elected from the synod for seven years.

Books

  • Gesangbuch zum gottesdienstlichen Gebrauche für protestantisch-evangelische Christen, Speyer, 1823
  • Evangelisch-protestantisches Gesangbuch für Kirche und Haus, Speier
  • Gesangbuch für die vereinigte protestantisch-evangelische christliche Kirche der Pfalz, Speyer, 1861 ?
  • Evangelisches Kirchen-Gesangbuch - Edition for Vereinigte, protestantisch-evangelische, christliche Kirche der Pfalz, Speyer,
  • Evangelisches Gesangbuch, Edition for Evangelische Kirche der Pfalz (Protestantische Landeskirche), Speyer, 1994

Notes

  1. ^ Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland – Kirchemitgliederzahlen Stand 31. Dezember 2020 Archived 2021-12-21 at the Wayback Machine EKD, November 2021
  2. ISBN 3-525-61362-8
    .
  3. ISBN 2-7010-1141-8
    .
  4. ^ Queer.de: Evangelical Church of the Palatinate Archived 2019-11-08 at the Wayback Machine, May 22, 2019 (german)
  5. ^ Protestant Church of the Palatinate (german) Archived September 15, 2005, at the Wayback Machine

External links

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