11 Facts About Dutch Reformed

Dutch Reformed Church was the largest Christian denomination in the Netherlands from the onset of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century until 1930.

Allegiance to the Dutch Reformed Church was a common feature among Dutch immigrant communities around the world and became a crucial part of Afrikaner nationalism in South Africa.

Dutch Reformed Church was founded in 1571 during the Protestant Reformation in the Calvinist tradition, being shaped theologically by John Calvin, but other major Reformed theologians.

The Dutch Reformed Church was shaped by various theological developments and controversies during its history, including Arminianism, the Nadere Reformatie, and a number of splits in the 19th century that greatly diversified Dutch Calvinism.

Dutch Reformed Church was officially disestablished in 1795 with the end of the Republic.

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Dutch Reformed Church remained the largest church body in the Netherlands until the middle of the 20th century, when it was overtaken by the Roman Catholic Church.

The Restored Dutch Reformed Church disapproves of the pluralistic nature of the merged church, which they allege contains partly contradicting Dutch Reformed and Lutheran confessions.

Christianity in Indonesia is strongly influenced under the Dutch reformed church, the first known church established in the country is "De Oude kerk" in Batavia in 1640.

Dutch Reformed Church went with migrants to the Americas, beginning in 1628 in New Amsterdam.

The Dutch Reformed were mainly Protestant and Catholic before arrival to America, but became dominantly Protestant after settling in America.

In 1766, ministers of the Dutch Reformed Church founded Queen's College, which would later become Rutgers College, in the Province of New Jersey.