For the Dutch political party, see Hervormd Gereformeerde Staatspartij. For other uses, see Protestant League.
The Protestant Union (German: Protestantische Union), also known as the Evangelical Union, Union of Auhausen, German Union or the Protestant Action Party, was a coalition of Protestant German states. It was formed on 14 May 1608 by Frederick IV, Elector Palatine in order to defend the rights, land and safety of each member. It included both Calvinist and Lutheran states, and dissolved in 1621.
The ProtestantUnion (German: Protestantische Union), also known as the Evangelical Union, Union of Auhausen, German Union or the Protestant Action Party...
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification by God through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine...
reasons, it was moved to the seat of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) in Hanover though. On November 9, 2019, Union of Evangelical Churches allowed blessings...
denomination formed from the merger or other form of church union of two or more different Protestant Christian denominations, a number of which come from separate...
The National Union of Protestants was a campaign group of evangelical Protestants in the United Kingdom. The group was founded in or shortly before 1944...
The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century...
Frederick I. The estates chose Frederick because he was the leader of the ProtestantUnion, a military alliance founded by his father, and hoped for the support...
The mainline Protestant churches (sometimes also known as oldline Protestants) are a group of Protestant denominations in the United States and in some...
The Prussian Union of Churches (known under multiple other names) was a major Protestant church body which emerged in 1817 from a series of decrees by...
The Union of Protestant Churches of Alsace and Lorraine (French: Union des Églises protestantes d'Alsace et de Lorraine, UEPAL; German: Die Union der...
(1531–1546), a league of Protestant princes against the Holy Roman Emperor ProtestantUnion (1608–1621), a league of Protestant states against the Catholic...
of Nassau) in 1817. These unions resulted in the first united and uniting churches, a new development within Protestantism which later spread to other...
preferred the Protestant Frederick V, Elector Palatine (successor of Frederick IV, the creator of the ProtestantUnion). However, other Protestants supported...
Protestantism is the largest grouping of Christians in the United States, with its combined denominations collectively comprising about 43% of the country's...
Catholic, Baptist and various other Protestant denominations. The majority of the Muslims in the Soviet Union were Sunni, with the notable exception...
Distribution of Protestants There are between 800 million and 1 billion Protestants worldwide, among approximately 2.5 billion Christians. In 2010, a...
The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), formerly named Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches until 31 December 2019, is a federation of 25 member...
The Protestant Ascendancy (also known as the Ascendancy) was the sociopolitical and economical domination of Ireland between the 17th and early 20th centuries...
the countries of the former Soviet Union, where the legal environment is not so favourable. Compared to Protestants and Evangelicals in Western Europe...
against the ProtestantUnion in the Lower Palatinate, during the Thirty Years' War. The Thirty Years War began in 1618 when the Protestant-dominated Bohemian...
the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) predominant in the northern regions, and the rest to several small Christian denominations such as the Union of...
Protestantism in Italy comprises a minority of the country's religious population. The Catholic Church is by far the largest Christian denomination, but...
Ulster Protestants are an ethnoreligious group in the Irish province of Ulster, where they make up about 43.5% of the population. Most Ulster Protestants are...
Protestantism has had a small impact on Spanish life. In the first half of the 16th century, Reformist ideas failed to gain traction in Castile and Aragon...
Congregationalists) Protestant Church in Germany Protestant Church in the Netherlands St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India Union of Methodist and Waldensian...