Church of Lippe

The Church of Lippe is a Reformed State Church (Landeskirche, i.e. a regionally delineated Protestant church body/synod) in Germany. 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 177,000 members. The Church of Lippe is mostly Reformed with a Lutheran minority (c. 30,000), 80% of the members belong to one of the 59 Reformed parishes.