Good evening, your answer is perhaps correct for a very small church part. But everything is wrong. The first protestant priest after having been catholic before was Martin Lutzer. Of course protestant churches have their priest - Pfarrer in Germany. Best luck Hans Hartmut Schuessler Diplom Ingenieur + Familiengeschichtsforscher (Hobby Forscher) Sudetenstrasse 22 D-65239 Hochheim am Main Familienarchive Schuessler und Veerhoff Familienarchive Staehler und Wurmbach 06146 - 4183 0172 - 8032648 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Battenfield" <bobbattenfield@sbcglobal.net> To: <HESSE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 5:53 PM Subject: Re: [HESSE] Re: HESSE-D Digest V05 #30 REFORMED RELIGION >I am surprised at the number of people who don't know what Reformed means >in > the history of the church. It was the Reformation -- the religious > revolution of the 16th Century which divided the church in Europe and > England into two bodies -- Protestant and Roman Catholic. Reformed > churches > believe in the priesthood of believers, that the common man can read the > Bible for himself and not need a priest, that you are saved by faith not > by > works, etc. > Bob Battenfield > La Mesa, California > > On 2/10/05 1:48 AM, "Peter Strauss" <pstrauss@aapt.net.au> wrote: > >> There is a Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa which was very much part >> of >> the Afrikaner Aparthied philosophy. >> >> Africaners were mainly descendents of the Dutch settlers together with >> German and French colonists. >> >> I am not sure as to what the "Reform" actually was. >> >> Peter >> >> Melbourne >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <HESSE-D-request@rootsweb.com> >> To: <HESSE-D@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 6:00 PM >> Subject: HESSE-D Digest V05 #30 >> >> >> ==== HESSE Mailing List ==== >> Postal Codes, How to Pay for Research, German Language >> Letters, Archive Addresses, German Telephone directory, >> http://members.cox.net/hessen/table.htm >> > > > ==== HESSE Mailing List ==== > Don't overlook the Hesse mailing list taglines at the > bottom of each list E-Mail you receive. Valuable infor- > mation is presented there! >

Correction: Martin Luther not Martin Lutzer. Dorene in MO --- hans schuessler <hans.schuessler@main-rheiner.de> wrote: > Good evening, > your answer is perhaps correct for a very small > church part. > But everything is wrong. > The first protestant priest after having been > catholic before was Martin > Lutzer. Of course protestant churches have their > priest - Pfarrer in > Germany. > Best luck > Hans Hartmut Schuessler > Diplom Ingenieur + Familiengeschichtsforscher (Hobby > Forscher) > Sudetenstrasse 22 > D-65239 Hochheim am Main > Familienarchive Schuessler und Veerhoff > Familienarchive Staehler und Wurmbach > 06146 - 4183 0172 - 8032648 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bob Battenfield" > <bobbattenfield@sbcglobal.net> > To: <HESSE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 5:53 PM > Subject: Re: [HESSE] Re: HESSE-D Digest V05 #30 > REFORMED RELIGION > > > >I am surprised at the number of people who don't > know what Reformed means > >in > > the history of the church. It was the Reformation > -- the religious > > revolution of the 16th Century which divided the > church in Europe and > > England into two bodies -- Protestant and Roman > Catholic. Reformed > > churches > > believe in the priesthood of believers, that the > common man can read the > > Bible for himself and not need a priest, that you > are saved by faith not > > by > > works, etc. > > Bob Battenfield > > La Mesa, California > > > > On 2/10/05 1:48 AM, "Peter Strauss" > <pstrauss@aapt.net.au> wrote: > > > >> There is a Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa > which was very much part > >> of > >> the Afrikaner Aparthied philosophy. > >> > >> Africaners were mainly descendents of the Dutch > settlers together with > >> German and French colonists. > >> > >> I am not sure as to what the "Reform" actually > was. > >> > >> Peter > >> > >> Melbourne > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: <HESSE-D-request@rootsweb.com> > >> To: <HESSE-D@rootsweb.com> > >> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 6:00 PM > >> Subject: HESSE-D Digest V05 #30 > >> > >> > >> ==== HESSE Mailing List ==== > >> Postal Codes, How to Pay for Research, German > Language > >> Letters, Archive Addresses, German Telephone > directory, > >> http://members.cox.net/hessen/table.htm > >> > > > > > > ==== HESSE Mailing List ==== > > Don't overlook the Hesse mailing list taglines at > the > > bottom of each list E-Mail you receive. Valuable > infor- > > mation is presented there! > > > > > ==== HESSE Mailing List ==== > Postal Codes, How to Pay for Research, German > Language > Letters, Archive Addresses, German Telephone > directory, > http://members.cox.net/hessen/table.htm > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail