Dutch Reformed Church, Sutherland

The Dutch Reformed Church in Sutherland is a congregation in the Dutch Reformed Church's Synod of the Western Cape, although the town on which it is based, Sutherland, has been in the Northern Cape province since 1994. It was separated from Worcester in 1855 as the 65th congregation in the Dutch Reformed Church. In the same year, the congregations Jansenville, Ceres, Murraysburg, Aberdeen, Heidelberg, Western Cape, and Fish Hoek were also founded. Sutherland's founding of between those of Murraysburg and Aberdeen. Until 2015, Sutherland was part of the Presbytery of Calvinia, but after this presbytery ceased to exist, Sutherland joined the Presbytery of Worcester while the other four (Calvinia, Calvinia-Hantam, Nieuwoudtville and Loeriesfontein) became part of the Presbytery of Clanwilliam.