Uniting Church in Sweden
| Equmeniakyrkan (Sweden) | |
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| Classification | United church |
| Orientation | Protestantism |
| Theology | Pietist, Reformed |
| 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 | ca. 59,000 (2022) |
| Official website | www |
Uniting Church in Sweden (Swedish: 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.[2]
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.
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- Free Baptist Union
- Holiness Union
- Örebro Mission
- Christian Democratic Party
- Swedish Association of Christian Social Democrats
- ^ Not in communion with the rest of the Catholic Church, part of the Union of Utrecht
- ^ a b Part of the Porvoo Communion
- ^ Part of the Communion of Nordic Lutheran Dioceses
