| LC control no. | n 2005002047 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Protestantse Kerk in Nederland |
| Variant(s) | PKN Protestant Church in the Netherlands Protestantse Kerk van Nederland |
| See also | Component of merger: Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk Component of merger: Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland Component of merger: Evangelisch Luthersche Kerk (Netherlands) |
| Beginning date | 2004-05-01 |
| Associated country | Netherlands |
| Found in | Verenigd, 2003: t.p. (Protestantse Kerk in Nederland) Een boekje open over de kerk, 2004: t.p. (Protestantse Kerk van Nederland) Wikipedia WWW site, Sept. 11, 2005: Protestant Church in the Netherlands p. (Protestantse Kerk in Nederland (PKN) is an organisation created on 1 May 2004 from the merger of the Dutch Reformed Church (Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk, NHK), the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland, GKN) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Evangelisch-Lutherse Kerk in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden). Since 1961 the churches have been going through an organizational process to this end. Some parishes and members in the Dutch Reformed Church do not agree with the merger and have separated. They have organized in the "Restored Reformed Church", "Hersteld Hervormde Kerk" (HHK)) The Protestant Church in the Netherlands WWW site, Sept. 11, 2005: actual p. (The Netherlands Reformed Church, the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands have continued as from 1 May 2004 under the name of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands. The three individual synods took this decision to unite in Utrecht on Friday 12 December 2003) |
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