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The Reformed Association in the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (Dutch: ''Gereformeerde Bond in de Protestantse Kerk in Nederland'') is a confessional orthodox
Calvinist Calvinism (also called the Reformed Tradition, Reformed Protestantism, Reformed Christianity, or simply Reformed) is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice set down by John Ca ...
group and movement within the
Protestant Church in the Netherlands The Protestant Church in the Netherlands ( nl, de Protestantse Kerk in Nederland, abbreviated PKN) is the largest Protestant denomination in the Netherlands, being both Calvinist and Lutheran. It was founded on 1 May 2004 as the merger of the ...
(abbreviated PCN; Dutch: ''Protestantse Kerk in Nederland'', abbreviated PKN). From 1906 to 2005 the official name was ''Reformed Association to spread and defend the Dutch Reformed Calvinist Church.'' On May 24, 2005, the new name of the association has become ''Federation of Reformed Protestant Church in the Netherlands''. It consists of 475 congregations and 290,000 members within the PCN. It was founded on April 18, 1906, in the former
Dutch Reformed Church The Dutch Reformed Church (, abbreviated NHK) was the largest Christian denomination in the Netherlands from the onset of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century until 1930. It was the original denomination of the Dutch Royal Family and ...
(Dutch: ''Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk''). The reason was that Rev. Adrian Bahler who had written that
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could learn a lot from
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, but the Synod didn't respond to this. It adheres to the
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. The Reformed Association also involved in the Reformed Youth Association and the Reformed Mission League. Within the Reformed Association there was strong resistance against the formation of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, a union of the Dutch Reformed Church, the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. When the merger of these denominations took place on May 1, 2004, some congregations separated to form the
Restored Reformed Church The Restored Reformed Church ( nl, Hersteld Hervormde Kerk, abbreviated HHK) is a Calvinist denomination in the Netherlands. It was founded in 2004, from congregations which made up the orthodox-reformed wing of the Dutch Reformed Church; t ...
(Dutch: ''Hersteld Hervormde Kerk'', abbreviated HHK).


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* {{Official website, http://www.gereformeerdebond.nl/, Reformed Association official website Dutch Reformed Church Christian organizations established in 1906