The Church of Lippe is a Reformed (Calvinist) member church of the Protestant Church in Germany that covers what used to be the Principality of Lippe.
Antonius Corvinus
Ferdinand Stosch
Johann Ludwig Ewald
Friedrich von Cölln
Protestant Church in Germany
The Protestant Church in Germany, formerly known in English as the Evangelical 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. In 2022, the EKD had a membership of 19,153,000 members, or 22.7% of the German population. It constitutes one of the largest Protestant bodies in the world. Church offices managing the federation are located in Herrenhausen, Hanover, Lower Saxony. Many of its members consider themselves Lutherans.
Front page of the Peace of Augsburg, which laid the legal groundwork for two co-existing religious confessions (Catholicism and Lutheranism) in the German-speaking states of the Holy Roman Empire.
Synodal elections 1933: German Christians and Confessing Church campaigners in Berlin.
EKD church office in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
EKD's internal organization.
