الكنيسة الوطنية هو مفهوم حول كنيسة مسيحية مرتبطة بجماعة عرقية محددة أو الدولة القومية. تمت مناقشة الفكرة بشكل ملحوظ خلال القرن التاسع عشر، أثناء ظهور القومية الحديثة.
مفهوم الكنيسة الوطنية لا يزال حاضرًا في عدد من الدول الأرثوذكسية والبروتستانتية مثل انجلترا والدول الإسكندنافية على وجه الخصوص.
في سياق إنجلترا تعتبر كنيسة إنجلترا الأنجليكانية الكنيسة الوطنية في البلاد وتشكّل هوية ثقافيّة رئيسية ولا تزال تحمل أهمية حضارية وثقافية للشعب الإنجليزي، وقد برزت أيضًا الكنائس الشعبية اللوثرية في الدول الإسكندنافية، والتي وصفت بأنها كنائس وطنية بالمعنى العرقي.[1] يُذكر أنّ الكنيسة الأسقفية الأمريكية تعتبر الكنيسة الوطنية للولايات المتحدة.
في المسيحية الشرقية الغالبية من الكنائس الأرثوذكسية الشرقية والمشرقية هي كنائس وطنية عرقيّة لشعوب المنطقة منها كنيسة الأرمن الأرثوذكس والكنيسة القبطية الأرثوذكسية بالإضافة إلى كنائس التقليد المسيحي السرياني، كذلك تعتبر كل من الكنيسة اليونانية الأرثوذكسية، الكنيسة الرومانية الأرثوذكسية، الكنيسة الصربية الأرثوذكسية والكنيسة الروسية الأرثوذكسية كنائس وطنية تنحصر في منطقة إثنية ثقافية معنية وينقسم التقليد الأرثوذكسي إلى الكنائس الأرثوذكسية اليونانية والكنائس الأرثوذكسية البروسلافية.
The Armenian Apostolic Church, sometimes referred to as the Gregorian Armenian Church by Western scholars, serves as the national church of the Armenian people.
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While this did not restore the Ohrid patriarchate, it did acknowledge the separation between the Orthodox church in Constantinople and the Bulgarian Orthodox church, which was now free to develop as the Bulgarian national church.
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Simultaneously the church tax, ministers being public servants, and the status of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark as the national church indicate that the state lends its support to the church.
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Having, in my last, arrive at the great points which I wished to establish--the apostolicity, independence, and authority of the Church of England; and that she is necessarily the National Church, because Christianity is the National Religion.
Denominationally Estonia is Lutheran. During the time of national independence (1918-1940), 80% of the population belonged to the Lutheran National Church, about 17% were Orthodox Christians and the rest belonged to Free Churches.
Her findings show that the development of the national church of Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which began in the fourth century and made Christianity the state religion of Ethiopia, was also a major contributor to national development in the fields of independence, social progress, national unity and empowerment, literary development, arts, architecture, music, publication, and declaration of a national language and leadership, both spiritually and military.
Religion is important to the Faroese and 84% of the population belongs to the established national church in the islands, the Evangelical—Lutheran Foroya Kirkja, which has 61 churches in the Faroes and three out of every four marriages are held in one.
One of Finland's national churches is the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (Finnish: Suomen Evankelis—luterilainen—kirkko), or simply the Church of Finland.
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Currently, a clear majority of the population belongs to the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church, and 1% of the population are members of the other national church, the Finnish Orthodox Church (see Table 7).
The Georgian Orthodox Church (GOC) is the Eastern Orthodox Christian body that serves as the national church of the Caucasian country of Georgia. The great majority of Georgians are members of the church.
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Germany's two churches (the National Church for the Protestants and the Roman Catholic Church) were "proper"with respect to their polities.
The creation of a national church of Greece, which the patriarch reluctantly recognized in 1850, set a pattern for other emerging Balkan states to form national churches independent of Constantinople.
The National Church of Iceland, formally called the Evangelical-Lutheran Church, is the state religion, and the president of Iceland is its supreme authority.
The creation of a national Church was also central to building national identity, with the Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC) established in 1967, much to the outrage of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
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The State shall support all religious communities including the Church of Norway on an equal footing, but the Church of Norway shall 'remain the people's Church and is as such supported by the State', thereby upholding its function as a national Church.
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Although nominally a national church, the Russian Orthodox Church developed from a defensive, nativist institution to the ideological foundation of an imperial idea.
In October 1929, the Established Church and the United Free Church were united to form the national Church of Scotland.
He also had the support of the Serbian Orthodox Church, which as a national church long identified with the national destiny and aspirations of the Serbian people was naturally inclined to identify itself with the movement that had the backing of the king and the Servian-dominated government-in-exile.
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The Church of Sweden could be characterised as 'national church' or 'folk church', but not as 'state church', because the independence of the church was expressed by the establishment of a Church Assembly in 1863.
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A second important cultural feature of the Tuvaluan nation is the centrality of the national church, the Ekalesia o Tuvalu, or Church of Tuvalu, in which up to 97 percent of the population claims membership.
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For this reason the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was the true democratic national church of the Ukrainian nation.
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The Church in Wales [is] ... the National Church in every sense of the word, not only theoretically but practically.
The Coptic Orthodox Church is the historic, and national, church of Egypt and is deeply tied to a monastic tradition of spiritual growth and preparation for ministry of monks and nuns, a tradition that continues to thrive.
The Chaldean Church is located primarily in Iraq and functions in many ways like a national Orthodox Church.
The Maronite Church is a national church. Its creed is attachment to Lebanon and its independence. The founding ethos of the Maronites is their migration from the Syrian plains to the freedom and "purity" of their home in Mount Lebanon.
[...] the three ethnoreligious groups that have played the roles of the protagonists in the bloody tragedy that has unfolded in the former Yugoslavia: the Christian Orthodox Serbs, the Roman Catholic Croats, and the Muslim Slavs of Bosnia.