Sentence examples for territorial church from inspiring English sources

Unlike Genevan Calvinism, the Reformed religion in Germany coexisted easily with the autocratic territorial church.

After World War II a group of territorial church leaders met in August 1945 to consider forming the EKD.

The territorial churches reorganized themselves into self-governing churches.

The territorial churches in Germany had sought closer cooperation among themselves for many years.

In 1997 the EKD had 23 territorial churches and claimed about 27 million members.

In 1948 it ceased to exist when the territorial churches formed the reorganized Evangelical Church in Germany.

In the realm of state churches and territorial churches, Christianity contributed to the preservation of the status quo of society.

But Hitler's church party, the German Christians, gained control of the German Evangelical Church, a federation formed in 1933 of Lutheran, Reformed, and United territorial churches.

German Lutheran and Union territorial churches have come gradually to follow this example and specify October 31 or the Sunday following (or preceding).

The Evangelical Church in Germany, German Die Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland (EKD), federation of Lutheran, Reformed, and United (a combination of Lutheran and Reformed) territorial churches in Germany.

In 1936 internal confessional and political differences led the Lutheran territorial churches to form the Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany, thus eroding the unity of the Confessing Church.