The church was founded by order of Grand Duke Adolphe on 16 April 1894.
[1] At the time, the state supported Roman Catholicism, under the Concordat of 1801, and Adolphe sought to redress the balance by recognising the country's Protestant minority.
However, the Protestant population was divided into several denominations, including Lutherans, Calvinists, and Waldensians.
[2] The general assembly of the church elects every three years half the members of the Consistory, the executive body, each for a six-year term.
The latter and the consistory together elect one of the active pastors of the church to serve as the ecclesiastical president (Chef de culte; Kirchenpräsident).