Johan Storm Munch was a Bishop in a church where until the 19th century membership was what?
77da4a5e7e294b3ad0885aa34aed6e1b
Johan Storm Munch Johan Storm Munch (31 August 1778–26 January 1832) was a Bishop in the Church of Norway. He was also known as a poet, playwright, and magazine editor.
c976f4f8a6e0556eebc19a71f9abd6d8
Church of Norway The Church of Norway ("Den norske kirke" in Bokmål and "Den norske kyrkja" in Nynorsk) is a Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity that serves as the people's church of Norway, as set forth in the Constitution of Norway. It is by far the largest church in Norway, and until the 19th century membership was mandatory for everyone.
77a5362045a58ae2875f72de80bcfee2
Church of England Men's Society The Church of England Men's Society was founded in 1899 by Archbishop Frederick Temple to bring men together to socialize in a Christian environment.
93c880d75b578b07a90bebdf6651d4b9
Women and the Church Women and the Church is a group of women and men who have been campaigning for gender equality (and especially for the ordination of women as bishops) in the Church of England. The group was initially created during the 1990s as London WATCH in order to ensure the acceptance of female priests in the Church of England. The organization traces its origins to the Movement for the Ordination of Women, which campaigned for the ordination of women as priests in the Church of England. Christina Rees, the group's former chair, welcome the appointment of Jana Jeruma-Grinberga as bishop in the UK's Lutheran Church in 2009.
6cbe1016dbeb09d99eb54e226939e25e
Antidisestablishmentarianism Antidisestablishmentarianism ( , ) is a political position that developed in 19th-century Britain in opposition to Liberal proposals for the disestablishment of the Church of England—meaning the removal of the Anglican Church's status as the state church of England, Ireland, and Wales. The establishment was maintained in England, but in Ireland, the Church of Ireland (Anglican) was disestablished in 1871. In Wales, four Church of England dioceses were disestablished in 1920 and became the Church in Wales.
16cb830f889d60a1e5c904475b31c2fa
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea is a Protestant church denomination located in Papua New Guinea that professes the Lutheran branch of the Christian faith. The Church is incorporated by a 1991 Act of the Parliament of Papua New Guinea and it has a baptized membership of approximately 900,000 members.
3f23aa91eb7821c7f3c88515a20e5cd0
Diocese of Skara The Diocese of Skara is the oldest existing diocese in Sweden, originally a Latin bishopric of the Roman Catholic church, and since Protestant reformation a Lutheran diocese of the Church of Sweden (the former state church of Sweden), with its seat at Skara in Västergötland (Skara Cathedral). In 2014, it celebrated its 1000-year anniversary as a full diocese.
3501ca860fb8f192df02d2d8287c063c
Union of Free Evangelical Churches in France The Union of Free Evangelical Churches in France or the Union des Eglises evangeliques libres de France is a Reformed Christian denomination founded in September 1, 1849. Most churches were previously independent, which grew out of the revival between 1820 and 1830. A few were Reformed which left the Protestant State Church because of doctrinal confusion. In 1939 a split occurred and a number of congregations joined the Reformed Church in France.
18a780af6cd02aac206db4362550692e
Diocese of Roskilde The Diocese of Roskilde (Danish: "Roskildes Stift" ) is a diocese within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark. The seat of the Bishop is Roskilde Cathedral in Roskilde.
e4ec7860f4e39111582b0b3635056c25
Evangelical Old-Reformed Church in Lower Saxony The Evangelical Old-Reformed Church in Lower Saxony (German: "Evangelisch-altreformierte Kirche in Niedersachsen" ) is a Reformed free church in Lower Saxony with 14 congregations and 7,000 members.
295bbb95747befa873f263a167657c4a
Latter Day Saint movement The Latter Day Saint movement (also called the LDS movement, LDS restorationist movement, or Smith–Rigdon movement) is the collection of independent church groups that trace their origins to a Christian primitivist movement founded by Joseph Smith in the late 1820s. Collectively, these churches have over 15 million members. The vast majority of adherents belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), with their predominant theology being Mormonism. The LDS Church self-identifies as Christian. A minority of Latter Day Saint adherents, such as members of the Community of Christ, believe in traditional Protestant theology, and have distanced themselves from some of the distinctive doctrines of Mormonism. Other groups include the Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which supports lineal succession of leadership from Smith's descendants, and the more controversial Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, which defends the practice of polygamy.
3399bb349957eb6e5d8db7447ef3d6fb
Reformed Church in America The Reformed Church in America (RCA) is a mainline Reformed Protestant denomination in Canada and the United States. It has about 223,675 members, with the total declining in recent decades. From its beginning in 1628 until 1819, it was the North American branch of the Dutch Reformed Church. In 1819 it incorporated as the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church. The current name was chosen in 1867.
2d694fd343435dec3d150af803bcdd97
National Evangelical Lutheran Church The National Evangelical Lutheran Church (NELC) was a Finnish-American Lutheran church body that was organized in 1898 in Rock Springs, Wyoming as the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran National Church of America. Although its founding had occurred in Wyoming, many of the congregations were located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan , especially around Calumet, as well as the Iron Range of northeastern Minnesota.
b8ea6ea7d9107c6dfe177455c22b1d5b
Gustaf Adolf Church The Gustaf Adolf Church (Swedish: "Gustaf Adolfskyrkan" ) is a church building in the Gustav Adolf Park at Östermalm in Stockholm, Sweden. Belonging to the Oscar Parish of the Church of Sweden, the church was opened in 1892 by bishop Gottfrid Billing.
84c76d57017d7b5f908096fef3ff9894
Reformed Churches in Argentina The Reformed Churches in Argentina was established in the 19th century by Dutch immigrants. They settled around Buenos Aires and Patagonia. Men and women participate in all ministries. The church has close links with the Waldesian Church – their synods have joint sessions and a joint General Assembly. The denomination has 13 congregations and 700 members. The denomination adheres to the Apostles Creed, Nicene Creed, Canons of Dort, Heidelberg Catechism and the Athanasian Creed. It is a member of the World Communion of Reformed Churches.
298dd6fc79fc251738fd761895950763
Protestant Church in Western Indonesia The Protestant Church in Western Indonesia is a Reformed Church, its theology based on the teaching of John Calvin. It was established in 31 October 1948. It was called the De Protestantse Kerk in Westelijk Indonesie founded in 1605 in Ambon, Moluccas . In its formative years it consisted of seven classes: Jabar, Java, Jatim, Sumatra, Bangka, Borneo, Sulawesi. It is a member of the World Communion of Reformed Churches the World Council of Churches and the Christian Conference in Asia.
0e84c1e7a464a034575ce120e7a5c564
Swedish Alliance Mission The Swedish Alliance Mission, "SAM", (Swedish: "Svenska alliansmissionen" ) is a Christian denomination in Sweden, mainly based in the town of Jönköping. In 2009 the denomination had 13,448 members spread among 167 Swedish congregations and congregations outside Sweden.
df4535eff6ed51ade39203c80d67be6d
Diocese of Strängnäs The Diocese of Strängnäs is a part of the Lutheran Church of Sweden and has its seat in Strängnäs Cathedral in Strängnäs, south of Lake Mälaren. The diocese is made up of the two provinces Närke and Södermanland (except for eastern Södermanland, which belongs to Stockholm County and the Diocese of Stockholm).
c7b8586e4ba864be4ecfaf2cd3beb7c9
Free Methodist Church in Canada The Free Methodist Church is a denomination of Methodism, which is a branch of Protestantism. It was founded in 1860 in New York by a group, led by B. T. Roberts, who was defrocked in the Methodist Episcopal Church for criticisms of the spiritual laxness of the church hierarchy. The Free Methodists are so named because they believed it was improper to charge for better seats in pews closer to the pulpit. They also opposed slavery and supported freedom for all slaves in the United States, while many Methodists in the South at that time did not actively oppose slavery. Beyond that, they advocated "freedom" from secret societies (e.g., Freemasons), which had allegedly undermined parts of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
c3d93f1b910c66cf6ec2dfb611281382
Protestant Church in Baden The Protestant Church in Baden (German: "Evangelische Landeskirche in Baden" ; i.e. Evangelical Regional Church in Baden) is a United Protestant member church of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), and member of the Conference of Churches on the Rhine (since 1961), which now functions as a regional group of the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE). The Evangelical Church in Baden is a united Protestant church. Its headquarter, the "Evangelical Superior Church Council" (German: "Evangelischer Oberkirchenrat" , EOK) is located in Karlsruhe.
bdf47dde10a6cc9945d20ce8dafabe19
Opus Dei Opus Dei, formally known as The Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei (Latin: "Praelatura Sanctae Crucis et Operis Dei" ), is an institution of the Roman Catholic Church that teaches that everyone is called to holiness and that ordinary life is a path to sanctity. The majority of its membership are lay people, with secular priests under the governance of a prelate elected by specific members and appointed by the Pope. "Opus Dei" is Latin for "Work of God"; hence the organization is often referred to by members and supporters as "the Work".
94ca1c7c2ef582ead001cf16640e9f9b
Mission Covenant Church of Norway The Mission Covenant Church of Norway (Norwegian: Det Norske Misjonsforbund, DNM ), is an assembly of dissident or liberated Christian churches founded in 1884 after being instigated to do so by the Swedish-American evangelist Fredrik Franson. Gustav Adolph Lammers, the role model of Ibsen's Brand is perceived as the spiritual father of the Mission Covenant Church of Norway. Today it comprises ninety-nine independent churches scattered all over Norway.