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The United Methodist Church in Sweden ( sv, Metodistkyrkan i Sverige) was a
Protestant Protestantism is a Christian denomination, branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Reformation, Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century agai ...
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that existed 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 ...
between 1868 and 2012. The church participated in creating 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 ...
. According to a 2009 report, the denomination had 6,436 members


See also

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United Methodist Church in Norway United Methodist Church in Norway ( no, Metodistkirken i Norge) is an annual meeting of the United Methodist Church covering Norway. It consists of 46 congregations and had 10,684 members in 2014. Norway's first Methodist was Ole Peter Petersen ...


References


Further reading

* Norén, Carol M. "On to Perfection: Nels O. Westergreen and the Swedish Methodist Church'' (2021
online
They emigrated to Chicago.
Former website
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