Protestant Church in Baden, Protestant regional church in Karlsruhe, Germany.
The Protestant Church in Baden is a united Protestant regional church (Landeskirche) with its headquarters at the Evangelical Superior Church Council in Karlsruhe. It has 974,576 members in about 458 congregations and is a member of the Evangelical Church in Germany. Its main church is the Evangelical City Church in Karlsruhe.
The church was founded in 1821 through the merger of Lutheran and Reformed communities in the Grand Duchy of Baden. During the 1933 to 1945 period, members formed the Baden Covenant of Confessors as a form of resistance against external pressure.
The church maintains strong connections within the Conference of Churches on the Rhine and participates in the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe.
Visitors can attend services at local congregations throughout the region and participate in community events and programs. Most parishes are easily accessible and welcome newcomers to join their activities.
On 23 July 1933 the Nazi-submissive German Christians won 32 synod seats against 25 for the Ecclesiastical Positive Association, and on 13 July 1934 Bishop Julius Kühlewein declared the church's merger into the Reich church. He reversed it by the end of 1934; in May 1936 he told the Gauleiter that about half his members clung to the Confessing Church.
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