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Churches In Stockholm
This is a list of churches in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. The list does not include chapels or minor churches. Churches in Stockholm County outside Stockholm municipality are listed in two separate lists: List of churches in Uppland and List of churches in Södermanland. Note: in the list, "Year" denotes the year construction of the church was finished, when it was inaugurated, or the main construction period of the church. The list }) , , , , , , , , Church of Sweden (Lutheran) , - , St George's Greek Orthodox Cathedral , , , , , , , , Built originally as a Catholic Apostolic Church, it has been Greek Orthodox since 1970 , - , style="white-space: nowrap;", German ChurchSt Gertrude's Church( sv, Sankta Gertruds Kyrka) , , , , , , , , Church of Sweden (Lutheran)German congregation , - , Gustaf Adolf Church , , , , , , , , Church of Sweden (Lutheran) , - , Gustaf Vasa Church , , , , , , , , Church of Sweden (Lutheran) , - , Hedvig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockholm
Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people live in the Stockholm Municipality, municipality, with 1.6 million in the Stockholm urban area, urban area, and 2.4 million in the Metropolitan Stockholm, metropolitan area. The city stretches across fourteen islands where Mälaren, Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Outside the city to the east, and along the coast, is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. It is also the county seat of Stockholm County. For several hundred years, Stockholm was the capital of Finland as well (), which then was a part of Sweden. The population of the municipality of Stockholm is expected to reach o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Stockholm
The Diocese of Stockholm ( la, Dioecesis Holmiensis; sv, Stockholms katolska stift) is an exempt Latin Catholic ecclesiastical bishopric in Sweden and the only Roman Catholic diocese established in Sweden since the Protestant Reformation. The diocese belongs to no ecclesiastical province but forms an episcopal conference with its Nordic neighbours. Its territory includes 44 parishes and covers the entire country of Sweden.Its cathedral episcopal see is Saint Erik's Cathedral, in Sweden's capital city, Stockholm. The former Catholic cathedrals have been possessions of the Church of Sweden since the reformation, along with other ecclesiastical infrastructure of the pre-reformation catholic Dioceses in Sweden. History Prior to the reformation in Sweden, there were a number of Roman Catholic dioceses, including the former dioceses of Linköping, Lund, Sigtuna, Skara, Strängnäs, Västerås, Växjö. By 1550, all of the episcopates of the Roman Catholic bishops in Sweden, inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Orthodox Church
The term Greek Orthodox Church (Greek: Ἑλληνορθόδοξη Ἐκκλησία, ''Ellinorthódoxi Ekklisía'', ) has two meanings. The broader meaning designates "the entire body of Orthodox (Chalcedonian) Christianity, sometimes also called 'Eastern Orthodox,' 'Greek Catholic,' or generally 'the Greek Church. The narrower meaning designates "any of several independent churches within the worldwide communion of asternOrthodox Christianity that retain the use of the Greek language in formal ecclesiastical settings". Etymology Historically, the term "Greek Orthodox" has been used to describe all Eastern Orthodox churches, since the term "Greek" can refer to the heritage of the Byzantine Empire. During the first eight centuries of Christian history, most major intellectual, cultural, and social developments in the Christian Church took place in the Byzantine Empire or its sphere of influence, where the Greek language was widely spoken and used for most theological writin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catholic Apostolic Church
The Catholic Apostolic Church (CAC), also known as the Irvingian Church, is a Christian denomination and Protestant sect which originated in Scotland around 1831 and later spread to Germany and the United States."Catholic Apostolic Church" The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. 2007. The tradition to which the Catholic Apostolic Church belongs is referred to as Irvingism or the Irvingian movement after Edward Irving (1792–1834), a clergyman of the Church of Scotland credited with organising the movement. The church was organised in 1835 with the fourfold ministry of "apostles, prophets, evangelists, and pastors". As a result of schism within the Catholic Apostolic Church, other Irvingian Christian denominations emerged, including the Old Apostolic Church, New Apostol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St George's Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Stockholm
ST, St, or St. may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Stanza, in poetry * Suicidal Tendencies, an American heavy metal/hardcore punk band * Star Trek, a science-fiction media franchise * Summa Theologica, a compendium of Catholic philosophy and theology by St. Thomas Aquinas * St or St., abbreviation of "State", especially in the name of a college or university Businesses and organizations Transportation * Germania (airline) (IATA airline designator ST) * Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation, abbreviated as State Transport * Sound Transit, Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority, Washington state, US * Springfield Terminal Railway (Vermont) (railroad reporting mark ST) * Suffolk County Transit, or Suffolk Transit, the bus system serving Suffolk County, New York Other businesses and organizations * Statstjänstemannaförbundet, or Swedish Union of Civil Servants, a trade union * The Secret Team, an alleged covert alliance between the CIA and American ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish People
Finns or Finnish people ( fi, suomalaiset, ) are a Baltic Finnic ethnic group native to Finland. Finns are traditionally divided into smaller regional groups that span several countries adjacent to Finland, both those who are native to these countries as well as those who have resettled. Some of these may be classified as separate ethnic groups, rather than subgroups of Finns. These include the Kvens and Forest Finns in Norway, the Tornedalians in Sweden, and the Ingrian Finns in Russia. Finnish, the language spoken by Finns, is closely related to other Balto-Finnic languages, e.g. Estonian and Karelian. The Finnic languages are a subgroup of the larger Uralic family of languages, which also includes Hungarian. These languages are markedly different from most other languages spoken in Europe, which belong to the Indo-European family of languages. Native Finns can also be divided according to dialect into subgroups sometimes called ''heimo'' (lit. ''tribe''), although suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Church, Stockholm
The Finnish Church ( fi, Suomalainen kirkko, sv, Finska kyrkan) is a church building in Gamla stan in Stockholm, Sweden. Belonging to the Stockholm Finnish Parish of the Church of Sweden, it was opened in 1725 after the Lilla Bollhuset building had been rebuilt into a church. See also *Bollhustäppan Bollhustäppan () is a small public space in Gamla stan, which is the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden. Named after Bollhuset, a historical theatre, it is located south of Slottsbacken just behind the Finnish Church, while two gates connect ... References External links 18th-century Church of Sweden church buildings Churches in Stockholm Churches completed in 1725 1725 establishments in Sweden Churches in the Diocese of Stockholm (Church of Sweden) Defunct real tennis venues {{Sweden-church-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Pentecostal Movement
The Swedish Pentecostal Movement ( sv, Pingströrelsen i Sverige) is a Pentecostalism, Pentecostal movement in Sweden. Many, but not all, of these, are members of the The Pentecostal Alliance of Independent churches, Pentecostal Alliance of Independent Churches, which was founded in 2001.William Kay, Anne Dyer, ''European Pentecostalism'', Brill, UK, 2011, p. 36. The Pentecostal movement spread to Sweden by 1907 from the 1904–1905 Welsh revival, 1904–1905 Welsh Revival and the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles in 1906. The Pentecostal Alliance of Independent Churches is made up of 439 churches and 87,392 members ,Pentecostal Alliance of Independent ChurchesStatistik, pingst.se, Sweden, retrieved May 9, 2020 making it one of Sweden's largest free church organizations. The Pentecostal movement is also part of the broader Charismatic Christianity (which includes both Pentecostals and the Charismatic movement, non-Pentecostal Charismatic movement). Size of the Pentecostal move ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filadelfiakyrkan Stockholm
('the Philadelphia Church') is a Pentecostal church building at Rörstrandsgatan 7 in Stockholm, Sweden; it was dedicated on 2 November 1930. The building is owned by the Filadelfia Stockholm congregation, the largest congregation in the Swedish Pentecostal movement with about 5,400 members as of 2015. It is also the largest Pentecostal congregation in Europe. The Stockholm City Museum has listed the building as having a particularly high historical and cultural value. The church building is next to Rörstrand Castle, where Kaggeholm Folk High School has been located since 2019. In connection with the COVID-19 pandemic, the church building was completely remodeled for over 100 million SEK. Building description The church was built in 1929–1930 according to plans by architect Birger Jonson and was constructed by Karl Ljungberg's construction company and consecrated on 2 November 1930. The church was built on the old factory site of Rörstrand Porcelain, where part of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
