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Albertus Christiaan van Raalte (October 17, 1811,
WanneperveenWanneperveen is a village in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It is located in the municipality of Steenwijkerland, about 4 km west of Meppel....
,
NetherlandsThe Netherlands is a country in Northwestern Europe, constituting the major portion of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east...
– July 27, 1876,
Holland, MichiganHolland is a city in the western region of the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is situated near the eastern shore of Lake Michigan on Lake Macatawa, which is fed by the Macatawa River . The city spans the Ottawa/Allegan county line, with in Ottawa and the remaining in Allegan...
) was an 19th century pastor in the
Reformed Church in AmericaThe Reformed Church in America is a Mainline Reformed Protestant denomination that was formerly the Dutch Reformed Church and known as the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of North America. The denomination has about 270,000 members and has congregations in both the U.S. and Canada...
. He led the
DutchThe Dutch people are the dominant ethnic group of the Netherlands.Dutch people, or descendants of Dutch people, are also found in migrant communities world wide, notably in Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and the United States....
immigrants who founded the city of
Holland, MichiganHolland is a city in the western region of the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is situated near the eastern shore of Lake Michigan on Lake Macatawa, which is fed by the Macatawa River . The city spans the Ottawa/Allegan county line, with in Ottawa and the remaining in Allegan...
in 1846 and established the school that would become
Hope CollegeHope College is a medium-sized , private, residential liberal arts college located in downtown Holland, Michigan, a few miles from Lake Michigan. It was opened in 1851 as the Pioneer School by Dutch immigrants four years after the community was first settled...
. He was involved in the
1857 SecessionThe 1857 Secession of Classis Holland from the Reformed Church in America occurred in January of that year. The classis became the basis for the Christian Reformed Church. The secession was led by Gijsbert Haan and, to a lesser extent, Albertus van Raalte and mirroring the Afscheiding developments...
of the
Christian Reformed Church in North AmericaThe Christian Reformed Church in North America is a Protestant Christian denomination which follows Reformed Calvinist theology...
from the Reformed Church in America, but himself remained in the RCA.
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