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    The Prussian Union of Churches (known under multiple other names) was a major Protestant church body which emerged in 1817 from a series of decrees by...
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  • Prussian Union may refer to: The Prussian Confederation, a league of cities formed in 1440 to resist taxes levied by the Teutonic Order The Prussian Union...
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    Evangelical Church of Westphalia (all of them are successors of the Prussian Union of Churches), the Evangelical Church of Anhalt, the Protestant Church in Baden...
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    was to have fully centralized royal control of all the Protestant churches in the Prussian Union of Churches. The king was said to be extremely shy and...
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    out of the Prussian Union of Churches in 1948 Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony (Evangelisch-Lutherische Landeskirche Sachsens), a Lutheran church body...
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    Prussia (redirect from Prussian)
    form of the Prussian Museums in Wesel and Minden. The Union of Evangelical Churches emerged from the Evangelical Church of the Union, a church association...
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  • Old Lutherans (category History of Lutheranism in Germany)
    Lutherans in the Kingdom of Prussia, especially in the Province of Silesia, who refused to join the Prussian Union of churches in the 1830s and 1840s....
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    Reformed traditions (Prussian Union). The seat of the church was Greifswald, the bishop's preaching venue was the former Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas in...
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    keeping this confession the parish was part of the Prussian Union of churches from 1817 to 1948, an umbrella church body combining parishes maintaining mostly...
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    of the Protestant Churches—asserted his long-cherished project (started in 1798) to unite the Lutheran and the Reformed Church in 1817, (see Prussian...
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    have fully centralized royal control of all the Protestant churches in the Prussian Union of churches. The merging of the Lutheran and Calvinist (Reformed)...
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    Lutheran churches in Europe have church fellowship with other churches arising from the Reformation, such as the Reformed and Methodist churches. The Lutheran...
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    forming the Evangelical Church of the Prussian Union, a predecessor to today's Union of Evangelical Churches. As the uniting of Lutheran and Reformed Christians...
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    royal control of all the Protestant churches. In a series of proclamations over several decades the Evangelical Church of the Prussian Union was formed,...
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    Protestants of the Prussian Union of Churches lost the king as their top leader. He had officially been the head bishop (summus episcopus) of the Union with...
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  • Evangelical and Reformed Church. ESNA featured a mix of both Lutheran and Reformed theology, reflecting the Prussian Union of Churches. The Eureka Classis...
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    council members met in the Garrison Church, Lutheran and Reformed Protestants founded the Prussian Union of Churches in it, and classical concerts took...
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    portion of Protestant chancellors belonged to the Prussian Union of Churches, which united the Reformed and Lutheran confessions throughout the Kingdom of Prussia...
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    persisting resistance of some Lutherans against this administrative Prussian Union of churches the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Prussia emerged in 1841...
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    Ludwig Müller (category Members of the Prussian State Council (Nazi Germany))
    embarrassing failure, when the German Evangelical Church Confederation and the Prussian Union of churches designated Friedrich von Bodelschwingh on 27 May...
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  • Reformed Church (HHK) Continued Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (VGKN) Reformed Churches (GK) formed in 2024 from the union of Reformed Churches in the...
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  • Prussian virtues (German: preußische Tugenden) are the virtues associated with the historical Kingdom of Prussia (1701–1918). They were derived from Prussia's...
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  • III of Prussia ordered the Lutheran and Reformed churches in his territory to unite, forming the Prussian Union of Churches. The unification of the two...
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  • Lutheran and Reformed churches in Prussia merged into the Prussian Union. The nineteenth century saw a number of unions between churches of the same tradition...
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    the 1817 Prussian Union of Churches. The Electors of Brandenburg already tolerated Catholicism in Ducal Prussia, which lay outside the borders of the Holy...
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    Martin Niemöller (category Grand Crosses 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany)
    Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union appointed him curate of Münster's Church of the Redeemer. After serving as the superintendent of the Inner...
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  • Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany Prussian Union of Churches § Under Nazi rule Religion in Nazi Germany Religious aspects of Nazism White...
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    Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union, and most of them were resettled in the Federal Republic of Germany along with the rest of the East Prussian German...
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  • August Hahn (category People from the Electorate of Saxony)
    fought the Prussian Union of churches of Lutheran and Reformed confession since 1817. However, this did not prevent anymore the royal recognition of the seceded...
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    reaction of her brother William II, who took his status as Head of the Prussian Union of Churches very seriously and hated disobedience more than anything....
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