The Christian Council of Sweden ( sv, Sveriges kristna råd) is an ecumenical Christian organization in
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...
, established on 15 December 1992.
Member denominations
Following denominations were members in 2013:
Free church movement
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Evangelical Free Church
The Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA) is a denomination in the Evangelical Protestant tradition. The EFCA was formed in 1950 from the merger of the Swedish Evangelical Free Church and the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Free Church Associa ...
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Uniting Church in Sweden
Uniting Church in Sweden ( sv, Equmeniakyrkan) is a united Protestant denomination in Sweden.
History
It was established on 4 June 2011 by the merger of the United Methodist Church, Baptist Union of Sweden, and Mission Covenant Church of Sweden ...
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Salvation Army
Salvation (from Latin: ''salvatio'', from ''salva'', 'safe, saved') is the state of being saved or protected from harm or a dire situation. In religion and theology, ''salvation'' generally refers to the deliverance of the soul from sin and its c ...
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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 Indep ...
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Swedish Alliance Mission
The Swedish Alliance Mission, ''SAM'', (Swedish: ) is a Christian denomination in Sweden, mainly based in the town of Jönköping. Its roots are in the 19th-century revival.
, the denomination had 13,777 members spread among 153 Swedish congre ...
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Vineyard Norden
The Association of Vineyard Churches, also known as the Vineyard Movement, is a neocharismatic evangelical Christian denomination.Despite the fact that some might see denominational labels as divisive, the founder of the movement John Wimber sai ...
Lutheran
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Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church
The Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church (EELC; Estonian: ''Eesti Evangeelne Luterlik Kirik'', abbreviated EELK) is a Lutheran church in Estonia. EELC is member of the Lutheran World Federation and belongs to the Community of Protestant Church ...
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Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Evaņģēliski luteriskā baznīca, or LELB) is a Lutheran Protestant church in Latvia. Latvia's Lutheran heritage dates back to the Reformation. Both the Nazi and communist regimes pe ...
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Church of Sweden
The Church of Sweden ( sv, Svenska kyrkan) is an Evangelical Lutheran national church in Sweden. A former state church, headquartered in Uppsala, with around 5.6 million members at year end 2021, it is the largest Christian denomination in Sw ...
including the
Swedish Evangelical Mission
The Swedish Evangelical Mission (SEM) (Swedish: "Evangelical Homeland Foundation", EFS) is an independent, low-church, New Evangelical () movement within the Church of Sweden. It emphasizes the importance of lay involvement in the church and ...
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Hungarian Protestant Church
Eastern Orthodox
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Bulgarian Orthodox Church
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church ( bg, Българска православна църква, translit=Balgarska pravoslavna tsarkva), legally the Patriarchate of Bulgaria ( bg, Българска патриаршия, links=no, translit=Balgarsk ...
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Finnish Orthodox Church
The Orthodox Church of Finland ( fi, Suomen ortodoksinen kirkko, lit=Finnish Orthodox Church; sv, Ortodoxa kyrkan i Finland, lit=Orthodox Church in Finland; ) is an autonomous Eastern Orthodox archdiocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Consta ...
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Macedonian Orthodox Church
The Macedonian Orthodox Church – Archdiocese of Ohrid (MOC-AO; mk, Македонска православна црква – Охридска архиепископија), or simply the Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC) or the Archdiocese o ...
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Romanian Orthodox Church
The Romanian Orthodox Church (ROC; ro, Biserica Ortodoxă Română, ), or Patriarchate of Romania, is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church in full communion with other Eastern Orthodox Christian denomination, Christian churches, and one of ...
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Russian Orthodox Church
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Parish of the Transfiguration of Jesus)
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Moscow Patriarcate)
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Serbiska ortodoxa kyrkan
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Saint Selasse Ethipic Orthodox Church
Oriental Orthodox
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Armenian Apostolic Church
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Ethiopian Orthodox Church
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church ( am, የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋሕዶ ቤተ ክርስቲያን, ''Yäityop'ya ortodoks täwahedo bétäkrestyan'') is the largest of the Oriental Orthodox Churches. One of the few Chris ...
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Coptic Orthodox Church
The Coptic Orthodox Church ( cop, Ϯⲉⲕ̀ⲕⲗⲏⲥⲓⲁ ⲛ̀ⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ ⲛ̀ⲟⲣⲑⲟⲇⲟⲝⲟⲥ, translit=Ti.eklyseya en.remenkimi en.orthodoxos, lit=the Egyptian Orthodox Church; ar, الكنيسة القبطي ...
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Syriac Orthodox Archdiocese of Sweden and the Rest of Scandinavia
Church of the East
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Assyrian Church of the East
The Assyrian Church of the East,, ar, كنيسة المشرق الآشورية sometimes called Church of the East, officially the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East,; ar, كنيسة المشرق الآشورية الرسول ...
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Old Church of the East
Roman Catholic
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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 ...
Observing members
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Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, and ...
Earlier members
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Estonian Orthodox Church
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French Orthodox Church
The French Orthodox Church (FOC; french: Église orthodoxe française, EOF) is a self-governing Western Orthodox church formed in 1975. The church's current first hierarch is Bishop Martin (Laplaud), the abbot of the Orthodox Monastery of St Mic ...
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Free Baptist Union
The Free Baptist Union (Swedish: ) was a Swedish Baptist denomination that began in 1872, when Baptist preacher was expelled from the Baptist Union of Sweden, after having been accused of heresy.
The Free Baptist Union gained followers mainly ...
, became part of the
Sanctification Union/Free Baptist Union and later the
Evangelical Free Church in Sweden
The Evangelical Free Church in Sweden ( sv, Evangeliska frikyrkan is a Baptist Christian denomination in Sweden. The headquarters is in Örebro
Örebro ( , ) is the sixth-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Örebro Municipality, and capit ...
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Sanctification Union, became part of the
Sanctification Union/Free Baptist Union and later the
Evangelical Free Church in Sweden
The Evangelical Free Church in Sweden ( sv, Evangeliska frikyrkan is a Baptist Christian denomination in Sweden. The headquarters is in Örebro
Örebro ( , ) is the sixth-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Örebro Municipality, and capit ...
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United Methodist Church of Sweden, became part of the
Uniting Church in Sweden
Uniting Church in Sweden ( sv, Equmeniakyrkan) is a united Protestant denomination in Sweden.
History
It was established on 4 June 2011 by the merger of the United Methodist Church, Baptist Union of Sweden, and Mission Covenant Church of Sweden ...
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Swedish Baptism Union, became part of the
Uniting Church in Sweden
Uniting Church in Sweden ( sv, Equmeniakyrkan) is a united Protestant denomination in Sweden.
History
It was established on 4 June 2011 by the merger of the United Methodist Church, Baptist Union of Sweden, and Mission Covenant Church of Sweden ...
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Mission Covenant Church of Sweden
The Mission Covenant Church of Sweden ( sv, Svenska Missionskyrkan), founded in 1878, was a Swedish evangelical free church. It was the second-largest Protestant denomination in Sweden, after the national church, the Church of Sweden. In 2011, t ...
, became part of the
Uniting Church in Sweden
Uniting Church in Sweden ( sv, Equmeniakyrkan) is a united Protestant denomination in Sweden.
History
It was established on 4 June 2011 by the merger of the United Methodist Church, Baptist Union of Sweden, and Mission Covenant Church of Sweden ...
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Örebro Mission
The Örebro Mission ( sv, Örebromissionen) was a Protestant denomination in Sweden. It was founded in Örebro in 1892 by Baptist pastor John Ongman and was part of the Baptist Union of Sweden until 1936. In 1997, the denomination became part o ...
, became part of the
Evangelical Free Church in Sweden
The Evangelical Free Church in Sweden ( sv, Evangeliska frikyrkan is a Baptist Christian denomination in Sweden. The headquarters is in Örebro
Örebro ( , ) is the sixth-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Örebro Municipality, and capit ...
References
External links
Christian Council of Sweden
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1992 establishments in Sweden
History of Christianity in Sweden
Religious organizations based in Sweden
Christian organizations established in 1992