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- ↑ www.reformiert-online.net/adressen/detail.php?id=13313&lg=eng
- ↑ www.ref-sh.ch/kontakt
- ↑ www.oikoumene.org/en/member-churches/europe/switzerland
- ↑ "www.oikoumene.org/en/member-churches/federation-of-swiss-protestant-churches". Archived from the original on 2017-08-14. Retrieved 2014-04-17.
- ↑ www.ref-sh.ch/?page=kirchgemeinden
- ↑ Entwurf zur Kirchenordnung der Evangelisch-reformierten Kirche des Kantons Schaffhausen, Art. 41 (PDF; 168 kB) (German)
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