Uniting Church in Sweden
Christian Protestant-oriented denomination in Sweden
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.
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.
Organization
The Uniting Church in Sweden consists of about 640 local congregations in Sweden, which collectively have about 59,000 members. The church serves around 130,000 people as of 2021.
Since 2007, the merging denominations also had a common youth organization called Equmenia. The intention to form the new denomination was made in the respective conferences in 2008, 2009 and 2010 before the final decision was made in 2011.
Since the inaugural meeting in 2011, the denomination's chairperson was Ann-Sofie Lasell, who was succeeded in 2014 by Tomas Bjöersdorff and in 2017 by Susanne Rodmar. The current chairperson, Dick Simonsson, was elected in 2026. The church conference in Linköping in 2012 elected Lasse Svensson as president and Olle Alkholm and Sofia Camnerin as vice presidents.
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