Abstract
In 2018, the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, the largest of the Protestant churches in the Czech lands, commemorates one hundred years since the General Assembly, which in December 1918 proclaimed the unification of Czech Protestants, Reformed as well as Lutherans, into one church. The author describes the circumstances of the commencement of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren through transformation of the Cisleithanian Protestant church, focusing on the period from 1917 to 1922.
The author highlights the key importance of the Constitutional Committee, which advised senior representatives of the Czech Protestant movement in legal and organizational matters from 1917 to 1919. He holds the view that despite conscious manifestations of legal discontinuity, the church constitution of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren of 1922 is the result of the natural development of the Cisleithanian Protestant Church constitution, not a revolutionary act.