Reformed Congregations

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.

Not to be confused with Reformed Congregations in the Netherlands or Reformed Churches in the Netherlands.
This article is about the congregations in the Netherlands. For the congregations in North America and Bolivia, see Netherlands Reformed Congregations.
Reformed Congregations
ClassificationProtestant
TheologyCalvinist
PolityPresbyterian
Origin1907
Netherlands
Merger ofthe unification of Reformed Churches under the Cross and the Ledeboerian congregations
Separations1953 the Reformed Congregations in the Netherlands separated
Congregations152
Members107,299
Ministers60
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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.

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