On 2009-10-12, Alwyn wrote:

> Adam Funk wrote:
>> On 2009-10-12, Alwyn wrote:
>> a few are episcopalian.
>> 
>> Anywhere except in Germany?
>
> According to Wikipedia:
>
> 'The Reformed Church in Hungary, as well as its sister church in Romania 
> and daughter church in the United States (Hungarian Reformed Church in 
> America), and the Polish Reformed Church are the only Churches in the 
> Reformed Tradition to have retained the office of Bishop.'
><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformed_churches>

I didn't know that.


>> There, AIUI, the EKD has "Bischofe" everywhere, even though some
>> Landeskirchen (regional churches) are Lutheran, some Reformed (which I
>> assume means Calvinist), and some "uniert" (stuck together, loosely
>> translated).
>
> I'm not sure how Calvinist most German 'Reformed' congregations actually 
> are; they are perhaps more followers of Luther's colleague, Philipp 
> Melanchthon, rather than Calvin and Zwingli.

That makes much more sense.


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