Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau (EKHN) is a protestant, liberal church in the German state of Hesse. The seat of the united church is in Darmstadt. Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... Look up liberal on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Liberal may refer to: Politics: Liberalism American liberalism, a political trend in the USA Political progressivism, a political ideology that is for change, often associated with liberal movements Liberty, the condition of being free from control or restrictions Liberal Party, members of... Hesse (German: Hessen) is a state of Germany with an area of 21,110 km² and just over six million inhabitants. ... United can refer to: // United Airlines United Petroleum, an Australian fuel company. ... Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland (federal state) of Hessen in Germany. ...

It is a full member of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), and is based on the teachings brought forward by Martin Luther during Reformation. Church President is Prof. Dr. Peter Steinacker (2006). There is no bishop. Evangelical Church in Germany is a wrong translation of (German Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, abbreviated as EKD). ... Martin Luther (November 10, 1483 – February 18, 1546) was a German monk,[1] priest, professor, theologian, and church reformer. ... The Protestant Reformation was a movement which began in the 16th century as a series of attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church, but ended in division and the establishment of new institutions, most importantly Lutheranism, Reformed churches, and Anabaptists. ...

The church is one of 23 churches in the EKD. The seat of the church is in Darmstadt. Around 1,810,000 members in 1,184 parishes are in the EKHN (December 2005). Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland (federal state) of Hessen in Germany. ...

Main church of the EKHN is the Paulus Church in Darmstadt.

The EKHN has its own evangelical academy in Arnoldshain.

Territory

The territory of the EKHN is in the south part of the German state Hesse and also some parts of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Hesse (German: Hessen) is a state of Germany with an area of 21,110 km² and just over six million inhabitants. ... The Rhenish Palatinate (Rheinpfalz, sometimes Lower Palatinate or Niederpfalz) occupies rather more than a quarter of the German Bundesland (federal state) of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) and contains the towns of Ludwigshafen, Kaiserslautern, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Pirmasens, Landau and Speyer. ...

History

The Evangelical Church of Hesse and Nassau was founded in the years 1946/1947 by a fusion of the former independet three churches: Evangelical Church in Hesse, Evangelical Church in Nassau, Evangelical Chuch in Frankfurt. All three member churches have a different history.

Some statemens

Ordination of women and blessing of same-sex unions are allowed. In general religious use, ordination is the process by which one is consecrated (set apart for the undivided administration of various religious rites). ... The blessing of same-sex unions is a practice officially sanctioned in some parishes of the Anglican Church of Canada and the Episcopal Church in the USA. It is also, according to the current Anglican Primate of Canada, widely practised in parishes of other churches of the Anglican Communion, without...

External links

• http://www.ekhn.de/
• http://www.ekd.de