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Reformed Congregations
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The Reformed Congregations (in Dutch: Gereformeerde Gemeenten, abbreviated GerGem) is a conservative Reformed church with 152 congregations in the Netherlands, 1 in Randburg, South Africa and 1 congregation in Carterton, New Zealand. The denomination has approximately 107,299 members as of 1 January 2015. It is Calvinist in theology. It is affiliated with the North American Netherlands Reformed Congregations.
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Classification | Protestant |
Theology | Calvinist |
Polity | Presbyterian |
Origin | 1907 Netherlands |
Merger of | the unification of Reformed Churches under the Cross and the Ledeboerian congregations |
Separations | 1953 the Reformed Congregations in the Netherlands separated |
Congregations | 152 |
Members | 107,299[1] |
Ministers | 60[2] |
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The denomination is also sometimes called the Reformed Church(es) in the Netherlands and North America, which can be confused with the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (in Dutch: Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland, abbreviated GKN), which were formed 1892 and which merged with the Netherlands Reformed Church (in Dutch: Nederlands Hervormde Kerk, abbreviated NHK) in 2004.