Kyrkomötet
 Church of Sweden |
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| Svenska kyrkan | |
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| Classification | Protestant |
| Orientation | Lutheran |
| Polity | Episcopal |
| Primate | Archibshop Antje Jackelén |
| Associations |
Lutheran World Federation, World Council of Churches, Conference of European Churches, Porvoo Communion |
| Region | Sweden |
| Headquarters | Uppsala, Sweden |
| Founder | King Gustav I of Sweden |
| Origin | 1536/1593 |
| Separated from | Roman Catholic Church in Sweden |
| Separations | Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (1809) |
| Congregations | 3,500 churches |
| Members | 6,116,480 baptized members (61.2%) (2016) |
| Official website | https://www.svenskakyrkan.se/english |
The Church of Sweden (Swedish: Svenska kyrkan) is an Evangelical Lutheran national church in Sweden. A former state church, headquartered in Uppsala, with 6.1 million baptised members it is the largest Christian denomination in Sweden.
It is the largest Lutheran denomination in Europe and the third-largest in the world after the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, as well as the third-largest Protestant body in Europe after the Church of England and the Evangelical Church in Germany. A member of the Porvoo Communion, the Church professes the Lutheran branch of Christianity. It is composed of thirteen dioceses, divided into parishes. It is an open national church which, working with a democratic organisation and through the ministry of the church, covers the whole nation. The Primate of the Church of Sweden is the Archbishop of Uppsala — currently Antje Jackelén, Sweden's first female archbishop. Today, the Church of Sweden is an Evangelical Lutheran church. 6.1 million people are members of the Church of Sweden.
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