EKD redirects here. For the Basque political party, see Democracia Cristiana Vasca.

The Evangelical Church in Germany (German Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, abbreviated as EKD) is a federation of 23 Lutheran, Reformed and United churches in their respective regions.

The German term evangelisch more accurately corresponds to the broad English term Protestant rather than to the narrower Evangelical, although the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America uses the term in the same way as the German church. Literally, evangelisch means "of the Gospel", denoting a Reformation emphasis on "sola scripture", scripture alone. The church described in this article is a federation of different, mostly mainstream Protestant churches, rather than one evangelical church. It can thus be considered a united church.

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