Netherlands Reformed Churches
The Netherlands Reformed Churches (Dutch: Nederlands Gereformeerde Kerken, NGK) was a conservative Reformed Protestant Christian denomination in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The denomination came into existence in 1967 out of a schism within the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated).
| Netherlands Reformed Churches | |
|---|---|
| Nederlands Gereformeerde Kerken | |
| Classification | Protestant |
| Orientation | Orthodox Reformed (Neo-Calvinist) |
| Polity | Presbyterian |
| Origin | 1967 Netherlands |
| Separated from | Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated) (Dutch Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland (Vrijgemaakt)) |
| Merged into | Dutch Reformed Churches |
| Congregations | 94 |
| Members | 33,032 |
| statistics as of 2011 | |
Since 2017, the denomination had been in the process of merging with the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated), which together formed, on May 1, 2023, the Dutch Reformed Churches, a new denomination.
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