Reformed Church in Austria

Calvinist Christian denomination in Austria

The Reformed Church in Austria (Protestant Church of the Helvetic Confession; Austrian German: Reformierte Kirche in Österreich, Evangelische Kirche Helvetischen Bekenntnisses) is a Christian denomination in Austria. The origin of the church can traced to the Edict of Tolerance in 1781 and in 1861. The Counter-Reformation changed this, and Protestant worship was not permitted until the toleration act. Some Protestants were able to survive these decades in the valleys of the mountains of Carinthia and Upper Austria. In 1861 full freedom of Protestant worship and public practice were granted.[1]

The Calvinist church traces its theological roots to Calvin and Zwingli. The church's name in German is Evangelische Kirche H.B.(Helvetisches Bekenntnis, meaning Helvetic Confession).[2]

The church has nine congregations and 13,590 members.[3] The church affirms the Heidelberg Catechism, Second Helvetic Confession, the Apostles Creed and the Nicene Creed.[4] Ordination of women and blessing of same-sex marriages are allowed. It is a member of the World Communion of Reformed Churches.[5]

## See also

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* Georg Erasmus von Tschernembl

## References

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1. ^ "Evangelical Church of the Augsburg and Helvetic Confessions in Austria — World Council of Churches". Oikoumene.org. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
2. ^ "Kurzgeschichte – Evangelische Kirche H.B. in Österreich". Reformiertekirche.at. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
3. ^ "Zahlen & Fakten › evang.at". Evang.at. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
4. ^ "Address data base of Calvinist churches and institutions". Reformiert-online.net. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
5. ^ "Member churches | Bringing together 80 million Reformed Christians worldwide". Archived from the original on 2012-08-08. Retrieved 2012-08-08.

## External links

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* church website
* Hungarian Reformed parish in Oberwart, Austria

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Communion of Protestant Churches in Europe member churches

Regional[a]
federations|

| Alsace and
Lorraine
(0.25 million)|

* Lutheran
* Reformed

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Germany
(19.2 million)|

| United
(8.1 million)|

* Anhalt
* Baden
* Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia
* Bremen
* Central Germany
* Hesse Electorate-Waldeck
* Hesse and Nassau
* Palatinate
* Rhineland
* Westphalia

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Lutheran
(10.8 million)|

* Bavaria
* Brunswick
* Hanover
* Northern Germany
* Oldenburg
* Saxony
* Schaumburg-Lippe
* Württemberg

Reformed
(0.3 million)|

* Church of Lippe
* Evangelical Reformed Church

Switzerland
(2.4 million)|

| Reformed|

* Aargau
* Appenzell
* Basel-Landschaft
* Basel-Stadt
* Bern-Jura-Solothurn
* Freiburg
* Geneva
* Glarus [de]
* Graubünden [de; rm]
* Lucerne
* Neuchâtel [fr]
* Nidwalen [de]
* Obwalden [de]
* St. Gallen
* Schaffhausen
* Schwyz [de]
* Solothurn [de]
* Ticino [de]
* Thurgau
* Uri
* Vaud
* Valais
* Zürich
* Zug [de]

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United
(1.94 million)|

* Belgium
* Czech Republic
* France
* Italy
* Liechtenstein
* Luxembourg
* Netherlands
* Spain

Lutheran
(8.6 million)|

* Austria
* Croatia
* Czech Republic
* Denmark
* Estonia
* Georgia
* Hungary
* Iceland
* Ireland
* Italy
* Latvia
* German Lutheran
* Abroad
* Lithuania
* Norway
* Poland
* Romania
* German Lutheran
* Hungarian Lutheran
* Russia
* Serbia
* Slovakia
* Slovenia
* Switzerland
* Ukraine
* German Lutheran

Reformed
(3.06 million)|

* Austria
* Croatia
* Czech Republic
* Denmark
* Greece
* Hungary
* Ireland
* Lithuania
* Luxembourg
* Poland
* Portugal
* Romania
* Scotland
* Kirk
* United Free Church
* Serbia
* Slovakia
* Ukraine
* United Kingdom
* Wales

Methodist
(12.23 million)|

* Great Britain
* Ireland
* United Methodist Church

Hussites
(1 million)|

* Czech Republic
* Czechoslovak Hussite Church
* Moravian Church

Other|

* Netherlands
* Remonstrant Brotherhood

Outside Europe
(0.04 million)|

* Argentina
* United
* Reformed
* Methodist
* Ecuador
* Uruguay

Observers|

* Church of Sweden
* Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
* Uniting Church in Sweden

Former members|

* Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia

1. ^ Those are legal umbrella bodies which represent their member churches before the national government. They encompass multiple individual autonomous churches of differnet traditions which are themselves members of the CPCE.

International churches

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

National|

* Germany
* United States

Other|

* Yale LUX

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