Confessing Church

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Calque of German Bekennende Kirche

Proper noun[edit]

the Confessing Church

  1. (Christianity, historical) A movement within German Protestantism during Nazi Germany that arose in opposition to government-sponsored efforts to unify all Protestant churches into a single pro-Nazi German Evangelical Church.