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Evangelical and Reformed Church Evangelical and Reformed Church
Evangelical and Reformed Church Protestant denomination formed by the merger (1934) of the Reformed Church in the United States and the Evangelical Synod of North America. Both of these bodies had originated in the Reformation in Europe. Their churches in America were established by immigrants from... Read more
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Philip William Otterbein Philip William Otterbein
Philip William Otterbein , 1726-1813, German-American clergyman, a founder of the United Brethren in Christ. After pastoral work in Germany, he emigrated (1752) to America as a missionary of the German Reformed Church. In association with Martin Boehm , whom he met c.1768, he carried on successful... Read more
Confessing Church Confessing Church
Confessing Church Ger. Bekennende Kirche, German Protestant movement. It was founded in 1933 by Martin Niemoeller as the Pastors' Emergency League and was systematically opposed to the Nazi-sponsored German Christian Church. The immediate occasion for the opposition was the attempt by the Nazis... Read more
Evangelical United Brethren Church Evangelical United Brethren Church
Evangelical United Brethren Church Protestant denomination created (1946) by the union of the Evangelical Church and the United Brethren in Christ. Both denominations originated early in the 19th cent. and had similarities in organization and polity. The Evangelical Church was begun by the... Read more
Wolfgang Fabricius Capito Wolfgang Fabricius Capito
Wolfgang Fabricius Capito , 1478-1541, German Protestant reformer, whose original family name was Köpfel. As a well-known humanist, he brought about communication between Erasmus and Luther. Capito worked with Martin Bucer in an attempt to unify the Evangelical churches of Germany, France,... Read more
Reformed churches Reformed churches
Reformed churches in a general sense, all Protestant churches that claim a beginning in the Reformation. In more restricted and more usual historical usage, Reformed churches are those Protestant churches that had their ecclesiastical origin in the doctrines of John Calvin, as distinct from those... Read more
Manuel I Manuel I
Manuel I (Manuel Comnenus) , c.1120-1180, Byzantine emperor (1143-80), son and successor of John II. He began his reign with a war against the Seljuk Turks, the subjugation of Raymond of Antioch, and an alliance with the German king, Conrad III , against Roger of Sicily. In 1147 the Second... Read more
Martin Niemoller Martin Niemoller
Martin Niemoeller , 1892-1984, German Protestant churchman. He studied theology after distinguishing himself as a submarine commander in World War I. Though at first a supporter of National Socialism, Niemoeller (then a pastor at Berlin-Dahlem) preached courageously against the Hitler regime after... Read more
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