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| Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated) | |
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| Classification | Protestant |
| Orientation | Neo-Calvinist |
| Polity | Presbyterian |
| Associations | International Conference of Reformed Churches |
| Origin | 1944 Netherlands |
| Separated from | Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (now part of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands) |
| Separations | 1967 Netherlands Reformed Churches; 2003 New Reformed Churches |
| Merged into | Dutch Reformed Churches (2023) |
| Congregations | 270[1] |
| Members | 120,000[2] members |
| Ministers | 288 [3] |
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The Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated) (Dutch: Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland (vrijgemaakt)) was an orthodox Calvinist federation of churches. This church body arose in 1944 out of the so-called Liberation (Vrijmaking) from the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, when many pastors and members refused to go along with the General Synod's demand to hold to "presumed regeneration of infants" at their baptism. Klaas Schilder played an important role in the Liberation. There are currently 270 affiliated local congregations with a total of about 120,000 members in 2016.
Since 2017, the denomination has been in the process of merging with the Netherlands Reformed Churches, which together hope to form, on March 1, 2023, the Dutch Reformed Churches, a new denomination.[4]
- ^ "Gereformeerd vrijgemaakt". Gkv.nl. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
- ^ "Cookies op ND.nl". Nederlands Dagblad. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
- ^ "BBK.GKV » Reformed Churches in the Netherlands". Bbk.gkv.nl. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
- ^ "The Liberated Church and the Dutch Reformed Churches want to be a church again in 2023". 25 September 2021. Retrieved February 17, 2022.
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