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Free Baptist Union

1872 Swedish Baptist denomination

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ10498970 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Free Baptist Union (Swedish: Fribaptistsamfundet) was a Swedish Baptist Christian denomination that began in 1872, when Baptist preacher Helge Åkeson was expelled from the Baptist Union of Sweden, after having been accused of heresy.

The Free Baptist Union gained followers mainly in Scania, Gotland, Dalarna, Västmanland and Västergötland. In the early 1900s, the denomination peaked at around 5000 members.

In 1994, the Free Baptist Union merged with the Holiness Union, forming a denomination that in 1997 merged with the Örebro Mission to form what is today the Evangelical Free Church in Sweden.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Free Baptist Union” is 1872 Swedish Baptist denomination. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Free, Baptist and Union, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1872, 1994, 1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Free, Baptist and Union is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q10498970. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1872, 1994 and 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “Free Baptist Union” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.