At the time of its formation, the PKN consisted of roughly 2,000 congregations with a membership of some 2,300,000, about 15% of the Dutch population. After the Roman Catholic Church, it is the second largest church body in the Netherlands. The PKN has four different types of congregations: Lutheran congregations are special in that they are federated in a separate Lutheran Synod, which is an autonomous synod within the PKN. The Lutheran Synod also has representatives in the PKN Synod.
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| - At the time of its formation, the PKN consisted of roughly 2,000 congregations with a membership of some 2,300,000, about 15% of the Dutch population. After the Roman Catholic Church, it is the second largest church body in the Netherlands. The PKN has four different types of congregations: Lutheran congregations are special in that they are federated in a separate Lutheran Synod, which is an autonomous synod within the PKN. The Lutheran Synod also has representatives in the PKN Synod.
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| - Merger of the Dutch Reformed Church, the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands
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| - A mixture of Presbyterian and Congregationalist church governance practised within the reformed congregations under the one PKN synod and a separate Episcopal polity practised by the Lutheran congregations with a special autonomous synod and these are joined together in a Federal union with each other under the one united PKN Synod.
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| - At the time of its formation, the PKN consisted of roughly 2,000 congregations with a membership of some 2,300,000, about 15% of the Dutch population. After the Roman Catholic Church, it is the second largest church body in the Netherlands. The PKN has four different types of congregations: 1.
* Protestant Congregations are local congregations from different church bodies that have merged. 2.
* Dutch Reformed congregations 3.
* Reformed Churches (congregations of the former Reformed Churches in the Netherlands) 4.
* Lutheran congregations (congregations of the former Evangelical-Lutheran Church) Lutheran congregations are special in that they are federated in a separate Lutheran Synod, which is an autonomous synod within the PKN. The Lutheran Synod also has representatives in the PKN Synod. The PKN is a denomination which contains both liberal and conservative movements. Local congregations have far-reaching powers concerning "controversial" matters (such as whether or not women are admitted as members of the congregation's consistory or admittance to holy communion).
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