German Catholics
the name given to a body in Germany that separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1844. Whatever might be the deeper causes of the schism, the immediate occasion of it was the exhibition of the Holy Coat at Treves. The Old Catholics may be regarded as having superseded the German Catholic movement.
GERMAN EV. PROT. CHURCH GERMAN EVANGELICAL PROT- ESTANT CHURCH, in the United States, a religious body, liberal in doctrinal belief, having no confession of faith. Its ministers are associated in district unions. GERMAN EVANGELICAL SYNOD OF NORTH AMERICA, a religious body, accepting the symbolical books of the Lutheran and Reformed Churches, representing in the United States the State Church of Prussia, which is a union of the Lutheran and Reformed bodies.
It celebrated, Oct. 12, 1890, the semi-centennial anniversary of its organization in the United States.