Uniting Church in Sweden

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Uniting Church in Sweden
Logotype of Uniting Church in Sweden.
ClassificationProtestant
OrientationProtestantism
TheologyUnited and uniting
AssociationsWorld 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
HeadquartersBromma,  Sweden
Origin4 June 2011
Merger ofBaptist Union of Sweden, Mission Covenant Church of Sweden, United Methodist Church of Sweden
Membersabout 85 000 (2012)
Official websitewww.equmeniakyrkan.se

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

  1. ^ "Samarbeten och ekumenik | Equmeniakyrkan". Gemensamframtid.se. Retrieved 7 September 2015.

External links

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