Herbert Duifhuis

Portrait by Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh, Rijksmuseum

Herbert Duifhuis (Rotterdam, October 27, 1531 - Utrecht, April 3 1581) was a Dutch Reformed pastor. He carried out a reformation in the Jacobikerk in 1578, but did not establish a consistory or use a catechism, and he admitted to communion anyone who presented himself (open communion). Werver Helmichius opposed open communion, and the church in Utrecht became divided between the Reformed of the Consistory (who opposed open communion) and the Preachers of the Old and New Testament (who promoted it).^[1]

References

1. Benedict, Philip (2002). Christ's Churches Purely Reformed. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 198. ISBN 978-0300105070.