Through the many hundreds centuries of existence of the Netherlands, several prominent and stunning churches have been built throughout the many towns and cities in Netherlands. Many of these architectural churches are known to be the oldest standing structures of the world.
Churches in The Netherlands
Iglesias en los Países Bajos
The Catholic Church in the Netherlands (Dutch: Rooms-katholiek kerkgenootschap in Nederland) is part of the worldwide Catholic Church under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. Its primate is the Metropolitan Archbishop of Utrecht. In 2015 Catholicism was the single largest religion of the Netherlands; Forming some 11.7% of the Dutch people, based on in depth interviewing, down from 40% in the 1960s.
Once known as a Protestant country, Catholicism surpassed Protestantism after the First World War, and in 2012 the Netherlands was only 10% Dutch Protestant (down from 60% in the early 20th century; defections are primarily due to rising lack of affiliation that started to occur two decades earlier than in Dutch Catholicism)
Kirchen in den Niederlanden
荷兰的教堂
Gereja di Belanda
Церкви в Нидерландах
The Protestant Church in the Netherlands (Dutch: de Protestantse Kerk in Nederland, abbreviated PKN) is the largest Protestant denomination in the Netherlands, being both Reformed (Calvinist) and Lutheran. It was founded on 1 May 2004 as the merger of the vast majority of Dutch Reformed Church, the vast majority of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The merger was the culmination of an organizational process started in 1961. Several orthodox Reformed and liberal churches did not merge into the new church.
Igrejas na Holanda
Kościoły w Holandii
Kerken in Nederland
The Dutch Reformed Church (Dutch: Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk, abbreviated NHK) was the largest Christian denomination in the Netherlands from the onset of the Protestant Reformation until 1930. It was the foremost Protestant denomination, and since 1892 one of the two major Reformed denominations along with the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands.
It spread to the Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, United States, and various other world regions through the Dutch colonization. It was the original denomination of the Dutch Royal Family until being merged into the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, a United church of both Reformed and Evangelical Lutheran theological orientations. The allegiance to the Dutch Reformed Church was a common feature among Dutch immigrant communities around the world, and became a crucial part of Afrikaner nationalism in South Africa.
Eglises aux Pays-Bas
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