Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (each) was a Lutheran denomination in 1818 to Netherlands from 2004. ==History[ Edit] == The first local Lutheran congregations in Netherlands were founded in the 16th century, the Lutheran Church in Amsterdam 1588 as founding year to[2]. The rural organization "Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands" was only founded in 1818. The city of Amsterdam was, and still is, the center of the Dutch Lutheranism. Most Lutherans in Netherlands are descendants of people who most likely have come into contact with German or Scandinavian Lutheran merchants. An exception is the municipality of Woerden, which goes back to the work of Jan de Bakker, the first Protestant martyr in the northern Netherlands. The Lutheran Church has always remained fairly small.

In 1791 had an Orthodox group of the Amsterdam Municipality afgeplitst, they formed the Restored Lutheran Evangelical Lutheran Church, this group went in 1952 on in each.

On 1 May 2004 the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Protestant Church in the Netherlands. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands had about 14,000 supporters the PKN. At the end of 2001, the booth at 14.253. Mr. Herman Leker (1945-2007) of Utrecht, the Second Secretary of the Lutheran Synod Board, held the State of the Church at. He came on 6622 professing members and 6741 baptism members, so together 13.363 members as of May 2004