national church
Country's official faith
A national church is a Christian church officially recognized by or closely tied to a particular country's government or national identity.
The Church of England and the Church of Sweden are national churches, established by law and historically intertwined with state authority.
National churches often receive government funding and may have ceremonial roles in state functions.
The term distinguishes these from international denominations or churches that operate independently of national boundaries.
- AnglicanismEnglish Protestant denomination
- Act of SupremacyLaw establishing royal church control
- state religionGovernment-backed official faith
- denominationalismDevotion to religious subdivisions
- LutheranismProtestant tradition emphasizing grace
liturgy · ecclesiology · religious establishment · ecumenism · concordats · episcopacy · Eastern Orthodoxy · Reformation · head of state · disestablishment · canon law · sacraments · catechism · political theology · festivals · Calvinism · secularism · missionary work
- church-stateseparation, establishment clause, religious accommodation, state religion, religious establishment
- State Churchesreligious establishment
- state religionreligious establishment, state funding, theocracy, disestablishment
- religious nationalismtheocracy, state religion, Zionism, Islamism, caliphate
- Secularismsecular humanism, secular state, disestablishment, secularization, secular education
- church divisionsdiocese, archdiocese, parish, bishopric, archbishopric
national churchfree church
Congregation independent of government
sect · cult · underground church · universal church · independent church
national churchindependent church
Self-governing religious congregation
local church · house church · cell group · religious movement · spiritual community
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