 The Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau is one of 20 churches in the EKD, has 1,516,180 members in 1,184 parishes (December, 2018).The territory of the EKHN includes the territories of the former People's State of Hesse and the Prussian Wiesbaden Region, which now form the southern and western part of the German state of Hesse and portions of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rhenish Hesse).It's the most important Protestant denomination in this area.