Hubert Duifhuis (Original Dutch: Hubert(us) or Huibert Duyfhuys or Duifhuis,

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"N ...

, October 27, 1531 -

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, April 3, 1581) was a

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pastor. He carried out a reformation in the

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in 1578, but did not establish a

consistory Consistory is the anglicized form of the consistorium, a council of the closest advisors of the Roman emperors. It can also refer to: *A papal consistory, a formal meeting of the Sacred College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church *Consistory ...

or use a

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, and he admitted to communion anyone who presented himself (

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). Werner Helmichius (Werner(us) Helmichius (Utrecht, 1550 - Amsterdam, August 29, 1608, Dutch reformed pastor) opposed open communion, and the church in

became divided between the Reformed of the Consistory (who opposed open communion) and the Preachers of the Old and New Testament (who promoted it).

References

2. Israel, Jonathan (1995). ''The Dutch Republic: It's Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477-1806,'' Oxford Press, ''pp. 227, 238, 370-371, 424.'' 1531 births 1581 deaths 16th-century Dutch Calvinist and Reformed ministers Clergy from Rotterdam {{calvinism-stub