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    The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), formerly named Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches until 31 December 2019, is a federation of 25 member...
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    the Swiss Reformed Churches have been organized in 26 member churches of the Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches. In the 2000 Swiss census, 33% of Swiss...
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    of the Protestant Church of Switzerland. Christianity was adopted by the Gaulish (mostly Helvetii) and Germanic (mostly Alemanni) ancestors of the modern...
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    the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant Church of Switzerland. These churches, and in some cantons also the Old Catholic Church and Jewish congregations...
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    Iceland. Calvinist churches spread in Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Scotland, Switzerland, France, Poland, and Lithuania by Protestant Reformers such...
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    of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE, also GEKE for Gemeinschaft Evangelischer Kirchen in Europa) is a fellowship of over 100 Protestant churches which...
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  • Waldensian Church may refer to: Waldensian Evangelical Church, a Protestant denomination active in Italy and Switzerland Union of Methodist and Waldensian...
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  • Evangelical Church in Timor – 2.0 million Protestant Church of Switzerland – 1.9 million Protestant Church in the Netherlands – 1.4 million Reformed Church in...
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  • Rita Famos (category Swiss Calvinist and Reformed ministers)
    11 January 1966) is a Swiss theologian. Since 2 November 2020, she has served as President of the Protestant Church of Switzerland and is the first woman...
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    Protestant churches (sometimes also known as oldline Protestants) are a group of Protestant denominations in the United States and Canada largely of the...
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    international and national bodies. Some of the national groupings cannot be considered churches in mainstream Protestant ecclesiology even when they constitute...
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  • of Swiss Protestant Churches, Protestant Church in Indonesia, Presbyterian Church (USA), Evangelical Church of Cameroon,and the Protestant Church in the...
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    The Waldensian Evangelical Church (Chiesa Evangelica Valdese, CEV) is a Protestant denomination active in Italy and Switzerland that was independent until...
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    Switzerland is only available for officially registered and church tax paying members of the Catholic Church in Switzerland and the Protestant Church...
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    The German Evangelical Church (German: Deutsche Evangelische Kirche) was a successor to the German Protestant Church Confederation from 1933 until 1945...
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  • The Protestant Church of Geneva (EPG, French: Église protestante de Genève) is a Swiss organization of congregations in the Canton of Geneva. It was founded...
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    Lucerne Jesuit Church is a Catholic church in Lucerne, Switzerland. It is the first large Baroque church built in Switzerland north of the Alps. The Jesuit...
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    The Protestant Reformation in Switzerland was promoted initially by Huldrych Zwingli, who gained the support of the magistrate, Mark Reust, and the population...
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    states, and France. The first Calvinist churches were established in Europe after 1519 and were part of the Protestant Reformation. Calvinist doctrine is expressed...
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    Church in Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarországi Református Egyház, MRE, pronounced [ˈmɒɟɒrorsaːgi ˈrɛformaːtuʃ ˈɛɟhaːz]) is the largest Protestant church...
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  • Evangelicalism Protestantism in the United States History of Protestantism in the United States Community Church movement Jesuism Local churches Non-church movement...
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  • efforts to unify all of the Protestant churches into a single pro-Nazi German Evangelical Church. The following statistics (as of January 1933 unless otherwise...
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    Totensonntag (category Protestant holy days)
    Sunday of the Dead), also called Ewigkeitssonntag (Eternity Sunday) or Totenfest, is a Protestant religious holiday in Germany and Switzerland, commemorating...
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  • and the authority of the Catholic Church. Towards the end of the Renaissance, the Reformation marked the beginning of Protestantism and in turn resulted...
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  • Swiss Psychological Society, and religious groups such as the Old Catholic Church, the Protestant Church of Switzerland and the Swiss Federation of Jewish...
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    St. Pierre Cathedral (category Protestant churches converted from Roman Catholicism)
    Saint Pierre Cathedral in Geneva, Switzerland is the principal church of the Reformed Protestant Church of Geneva. Previously it was a Roman Catholic cathedral...
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  • usually refers to Protestant churches, but—in case of Switzerland—also Roman Catholic dioceses. They originated as the national churches of the independent...
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  • Protestantism originated from the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century. The term Protestant comes from the Protestation at Speyer in 1529, where...
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    Evangelisch-methodistischen Kirche Adliswil-Zürich 2 Protestant Church of Switzerland Church of England (The church defines marriage as between a man and a woman...
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    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 Frederick...
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