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The Heddal Stave Church in Notodden, the largest stave church in Norway. Religion in Norway is dominated by Lutheran Christianity, with 63.7% of the population belonging to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway in 2022. [1] [2] The Catholic Church is the next largest Christian church at 3.1%. [3] The unaffiliated make up 18.3% of the ...
The Church of Norway (Den norske kirke in Bokmål or Den norske kyrkja in Nynorsk) is the state church of Norway. The church confesses the Lutheran Christian faith. It has as its foundation the Christian Bible, the Apostles' Creed, Nicene Creed, Athanasian Creed, Luther's Small Catechism and the Augsburg Confession. The Church is a member of ...
The Catholic Church per se, however, was not allowed to operate in Norway between 1537 and 1843, and throughout most of this period, Catholic priests faced execution. [ citation needed ] In 1582, the scattered Catholics in Norway and elsewhere in Northern Europe were placed under the jurisdiction of a papal nuncio in Cologne , however, with ...
The Church of Norway (Bokmål: Den norske kirke, Nynorsk: Den norske kyrkja, Northern Sami: Norgga girku, Southern Sami: Nöörjen gærhkoe) is an evangelical Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity and by far the largest Christian church in Norway. [2] The church became the state church of Norway around 1020, [3] and was established ...
The Catholic Church in the Nordic countries was the only Christian church in that region before the Reformation in the 16th century. Since then, Scandinavia has been a mostly non- Catholic ( Lutheran ) region and the position of Nordic Catholics for many centuries after the Reformation was very difficult due to legislation outlawing Catholicism .
Although Czech Republic was the site of one of the most significant pre-reformation movements, [16] there are only few Protestant adherents [17] [18] —mainly due to historical reasons like persecution of Protestants by the Catholic Habsburgs, [19] restrictions during the Communist rule and also the ongoing secularization. [16]
About 1600 church buildings are affiliated with the Church of Norway. [1] The Catholic church of Norway has about 100,000 members (2012 numbers) [25] and is organised in 35 congregations with their own churches. Old Moster Church, possibly the oldest in Norway, site of the Moster Thing where Christianity was made law of the land (around 1024). [26]
Note that most Calvinist and Lutheran churches in mainland Europe have merged to united Protestant churches (e.g. in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland). Exclusive Lutheranism still prevails in the Nordic countries. There are an estimated twelve million members of United Churches in Europe. [48]