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The Confessing Church (also translated Confessional Church) () was a Protestant church in Nazi Germany that arose in opposition to government-sponsored efforts to nazify the German Protestant church.〔 See drop-down essay on "Unification, World Wars, and Nazism"〕 ==Demographics== The following statistics (as of January 1933 unless otherwise stated) are an aid in understanding the context of the political and theological developments discussed in this article.〔All figures are approximate and are drawn from ''Shirer'' at pp. 234–40.〕 *Number of Protestants in Germany: 45 million *Number of free church Protestants: 150,000〔The overwhelming majority of German Protestants were either Lutheran, Reformed or United and were members of one of the 28 regional or provincial churches. The "free church" Protestants were members of denominations such as Baptist or Methodist and constituted a very small minority.〕 *Largest regional Protestant church: Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union (), with 18 million members the church strongest in members in the country at the time *Number of Protestant pastors: 18,000 * *Number of these strongly adhering to the "German Christian" church faction as of 1935: 3000 * *Number of these strongly adhering to the "Confessing Church" church faction as of 1935: 3000 * * *Number of these arrested during 1935: 700 * *Number of these not closely affiliated with or adhering to either faction: 12,000 *Total population of Germany: 65 million *Number of Jews in Germany: 525,000〔''Holocaust Encyclopedia'' p. 427, less than 0.9% of the population〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Confessing Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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