Uniting Church in Sweden
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Equmeniakyrkan (Sweden) | |
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Classification | Protestant |
Orientation | Protestantism |
Theology | United and uniting |
Associations | World Communion of Reformed Churches, Baptist World Alliance, International Federation of Free Evangelical Churches, United Methodist Church, European Baptist Federation, World Methodist Council, World Council of Churches, Conference of European Churches[1] |
Region | Sweden |
Headquarters | Bromma, Sweden |
Origin | 4 June 2011 |
Merger of | Baptist Union of Sweden, Mission Covenant Church of Sweden, United Methodist Church of Sweden |
Members | about 85 000 (2012) |
Official website | www |
Uniting Church in Sweden (Swedish: Equmeniakyrkan) is a Christian Protestant denomination in Sweden, established on 4 June 2011 out of the union of Baptist Union of Sweden, United Methodist Church and Mission Covenant Church of Sweden.
History[]
Initially the name of the unified denomination was the Joint Future Church (Swedish: Gemensam framtid), before the name was changed during a conference in Karlstad on 11 May 2013 to the present Uniting Church in Sweden or Equmeniakyrkan in Swedish.
References[]
- ^ "Samarbeten och ekumenik | Equmeniakyrkan". Gemensamframtid.se. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
External links[]
Categories:
- Uniting Church in Sweden
- United and uniting churches
- Reformed denominations in Europe
- Members of the World Communion of Reformed Churches
- Christian organizations established in 2011
- 2011 establishments in Sweden
- Baptist denominations in Europe
- Methodist denominations
- Members of the World Council of Churches
- Organizations based in Stockholm
- Christian denominations in Sweden