Evangelical Church of Anhalt

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Area covered by the Evangelical Church of Anhalt within Germany.

The Evangelical Church of Anhalt (Evangelische Landeskirche Anhalts) is one of the 22 member churches of the Evangelical Church in Germany. Its seat is in Dessau-Roßlau in Saxony-Anhalt, in the former duchy of Anhalt.

The Evangelical Church of Anhalt is affiliated with 214 churches in approximately 150 parishes in central Saxony-Anhalt. In December 2008, the church had 47,277 members,[1] making its membership the smallest among the member churches of the Evangelical Church in Germany. In 1922 the church still counted 315,000 parishioners, then by number of members ranked the 12th smallest of the then 28 German Protestant regional churches.[2]

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  1. ^ Statistik - PDF. EKD.de (in German). Retrieved 2011-12-02.
  2. ^ Sebastian Müller-Rolli in collaboration with Reiner Anselm, Evangelische Schulpolitik in Deutschland 1918–1958: Dokumente und Darstellung, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999, (=Eine Veröffentlichung des Comenius-Instituts Münster), p. 30. ISBN 3-525-61362-8.

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