Evangelical Church of Westphalia

The Protestant Church of Westphalia (German: Evangelische Kirche von Westfalen, EKvW) is a United Protestant church body in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The seat of the praeses (German: Präses, the head of the church) is Bielefeld.

The EKvW emerged on 13 June 1945, when the ecclesiastical province of Westphalia within the Lutheran Church of the old-Prussian Union assumed its independence as church body of its own.

The EKvW is a full member of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD), and the Reformed Alliance[1] and is a church whose bases are in a Union between parishes in Lutheran and Calvinistic traditions.

Präses (president) of the EKvW is Annette Kurschus (2012), as its first female leader.