Church of Lippe

Ambit of the Church of Lippe
among the ambits of other Protestant regional churches in Germany
Ambit of the Church of Lippe
Basic data
Ambit area: 1,157.74 km2 (447.01 sq mi)
Spiritual leader: Landessuperintendent
Dietmar Arends
Memberships: RB (as of 1884), EKD (as of 1945),
UEK (as of 2004), WCRC (as of 2010),
Reformed Alliance as of 2010
Classes: 7
Parishes: 69
Number of parishioners: 148,749 (2020)[1]
Share of parishioners in
the overall population
in the ambit:
43.2% (2020)[1]
Website: www.lippische-landeskirche.de

The Church of Lippe (German: Lippische Landeskirche) is a Reformed (Calvinist) member church of the Protestant Church in Germany that covers what used to be the Principality of Lippe.

The seat of the church administration is Detmold. The preaching venue of the spiritual leader (Landessuperintendent) of the Church of Lippe is the Redeemer Church in Detmold. The Church of Lippe comprises 69 congregations and 148,749 members. The Church of Lippe is mostly Reformed with a Lutheran minority (c. 30,000), 80% of the members belonging to one of the 59 Reformed parishes.