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Confessing Church

Confessing Church proper noun: 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.

Proper noun

the Confessing Church

  1. (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.

Origin of Confessing Church

Calque of German Bekennende Kirche

Questions about Confessing Church

What does Confessing Church mean?
Confessing Church means 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.
What part of speech is Confessing Church?
Confessing Church is a proper noun.

Words near Confessing Church in the dictionary

  1. confessers
  2. confesses
  3. confessest
  4. confesseth
  5. confessing
  6. Confessing Church
  7. confessing Sam
  8. confessing Sams
  9. confessingly
  10. confessings
  11. confessio

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