Uniting Church in Sweden

Uniting Church in Sweden
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 http://www.equmeniakyrkan.se

Uniting Church in Sweden (Swedish: Equmeniakyrkan) is a Christian Protestant denomination in Sweden, established on 4 June 2011 out of the Baptist Union of Sweden, the United Methodist Church and the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden as the Joint Future Church (Swedish: Gemensam framtid), before the name was changed during a conference in Karlstad on 11 May 2013.

References

  1. "Samarbeten och ekumenik | Equmeniakyrkan". Gemensamframtid.se. Retrieved 2015-09-07.


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