Church of Sweden

This source names Church of Sweden directly: "The English Wikipedia article on the Church of Sweden, community edited, carrying a membership statistics table sourced from the church's own official register, Svenska kyrkan i siffror (Church of..."

This source names Church of Sweden directly: "Council of Churches's profile of the Church of Sweden, which ceased to be Sweden's state church at midnight on 31 December 1999 under the Church Ordinance that took effect 1 January 2000, ending..."

This source names Church of Sweden directly: "On Sweden, it records that since the 2000 disestablishment of the Church of Sweden, the Swedish Tax Agency collects a voluntary church fee for the Church of Sweden and, since a later government..."

This source names Church of Sweden directly: "Its limit is that a claim about how individual Church of Sweden parishes actually balance the book's traditional and modern hymns in practice, as opposed to its authorized contents, needs a source..."

This source names Church of Sweden directly: "This article explains that although the Church of Sweden separated from the state in 2000, the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket) still collects the church fee alongside ordinary income tax on the..."

This source names Church of Sweden directly: "A historical reference account of the Church of Sweden stating that the separation of church and state took effect on 1 January 2000, after which the Church could register as a faith community and..."

Lutheran, holding the Augsburg Confession as its doctrinal standard.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. The Augsburg Confession devotes two articles to this, one against compulsory clerical celibacy and one against monastic vows, and the monasteries of the Lutheran territories were dissolved.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. Pilgrimage stands in the Augsburg Confession among the human traditions urged as though they merited grace, and is refused on that ground rather than as a custom.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. Lutherans count the sacraments by the presence of a command of Christ and a promise attached to an outward sign, which yields two, or three when absolution is counted.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. The Augsburg Confession permits the remembrance of the saints as examples of faith and forbids their invocation, since Christ alone is the mediator.

The Church of Sweden does not include 1 Esdras in its Bible. Its canon follows the Lutheran Reformation's return to the thirty-nine books of the Hebrew Bible for the Old Testament, and 1 Esdras, read as scripture within Eastern Orthodoxy, falls outside that narrower list along with the rest of the deuterocanonical and apocryphal writings the Reformers set aside.

The Church of Sweden does not include 3 Maccabees in its Bible. Its Old Testament follows the Lutheran Reformation's return to the thirty-nine books of the Hebrew Bible, and 3 Maccabees, read as scripture within Eastern Orthodoxy, falls outside that narrower canon along with the rest of the deuterocanonical and apocryphal writings.

The Church of Sweden does not include Psalm 151 in its Bible. Its Old Testament follows the Lutheran Reformation's return to the thirty-nine books of the Hebrew Bible, and Psalm 151, read as scripture within Eastern Orthodoxy and found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, falls outside that narrower canon along with the rest of the deuterocanonical and apocryphal writings.

Not canonized, but retained. Luther gathered the deuterocanonical books into a separate Apocrypha section of his 1534 Bible, headed as not equal to Holy Scripture yet good and useful to read, and Lutheran Bibles have printed and read them there since.

Not canonized, but retained. Luther gathered the deuterocanonical books into a separate Apocrypha section of his 1534 Bible, headed as not equal to Holy Scripture yet good and useful to read, and Lutheran Bibles have printed and read them there since.

Not canonized, but retained. Luther gathered the deuterocanonical books into a separate Apocrypha section of his 1534 Bible, headed as not equal to Holy Scripture yet good and useful to read, and Lutheran Bibles have printed and read them there since.

Not canonized, but retained. Luther gathered the deuterocanonical books into a separate Apocrypha section of his 1534 Bible, headed as not equal to Holy Scripture yet good and useful to read, and Lutheran Bibles have printed and read them there since.

Not canonized, but retained. Luther gathered the deuterocanonical books into a separate Apocrypha section of his 1534 Bible, headed as not equal to Holy Scripture yet good and useful to read, and Lutheran Bibles have printed and read them there since.

Not canonized, but retained. Luther gathered the deuterocanonical books into a separate Apocrypha section of his 1534 Bible, headed as not equal to Holy Scripture yet good and useful to read, and Lutheran Bibles have printed and read them there since.

Not canonized, but retained. Luther gathered the deuterocanonical books into a separate Apocrypha section of his 1534 Bible, headed as not equal to Holy Scripture yet good and useful to read, and Lutheran Bibles have printed and read them there since.

Not canonized, but retained. Luther gathered the deuterocanonical books into a separate Apocrypha section of his 1534 Bible, headed as not equal to Holy Scripture yet good and useful to read, and Lutheran Bibles have printed and read them there since.

Not canonized, but retained. Luther gathered the deuterocanonical books into a separate Apocrypha section of his 1534 Bible, headed as not equal to Holy Scripture yet good and useful to read, and Lutheran Bibles have printed and read them there since.

Not canonized, but retained. Luther gathered the deuterocanonical books into a separate Apocrypha section of his 1534 Bible, headed as not equal to Holy Scripture yet good and useful to read, and Lutheran Bibles have printed and read them there since.

Not canonized, but retained. Luther gathered the deuterocanonical books into a separate Apocrypha section of his 1534 Bible, headed as not equal to Holy Scripture yet good and useful to read, and Lutheran Bibles have printed and read them there since.

The Church of Sweden kept the historic episcopate through a gradual Reformation, unlike most Lutheran churches, which is the ground on which the Porvoo Communion brought it into full communion with the Anglican churches of Britain and Ireland.

Sung in Swedish and among the best known items of the national hymnbook, in a church that kept its bishops and much of its old ceremonial through the Reformation.

The Church of Sweden kept its bishops and its line of succession unbroken through the Reformation, which distinguishes it from most of the Lutheran world.

The cope is worn at high festivals and at ordinations, part of the medieval vesture the Swedish church retained.

The Church of Sweden retained both its dioceses and the historic succession of its bishops through the Reformation, which not every Lutheran church did.

The Church of Sweden kept the mitre and the crozier through the Reformation, so its bishops are vested as bishops were before it, which is unusual among the churches of the Reformation.

The Church of Sweden is governed by an elected church assembly, and its independence from the state was completed in 2000.

The Church of Sweden was among the founding member churches.

The Swedish reformation was carried by men who had studied at the university in the town, and the connection is one of descent rather than of pilgrimage.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did.

Alla helgons dag, kept in Sweden on the Saturday falling between October 31 and November 6 rather than on November 1, and one of the most widely observed days in the Swedish year.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. Almsgiving is treated as a fruit of faith rather than as a work that justifies, which is the whole of the Lutheran difference on the point.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. Baptism is necessary to salvation and by it the grace of God is offered, and the Augsburg Confession condemns those who teach that children are saved without it.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. Luther's instruction to remember one's baptism daily, drowning the old self and rising again, is the central Lutheran account of the Christian life.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did.

Kept from the Julotta, the dawn service of Christmas morning, which remains among the best attended services of the Swedish church year.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. The churching of a mother was retained in the Lutheran church orders of the sixteenth century, stripped of any suggestion that she needed purifying.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. Compline stands in the modern Lutheran books as the last office of the day.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. Luther retained private confession and absolution and defended it in the catechisms, though the practice fell away in most Lutheran churches in favour of a corporate confession at the start of the service.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. Confirmation was kept as a rite of the church and denied the standing of a sacrament, since it has no command of Christ and no promise of grace attached to an outward sign.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. Fasting is kept as an outward discipline that prepares a person to receive the sacrament, and is expressly denied any merit before God.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. The burial office was retained, with the prayers for the dead removed and the promise of the resurrection put at the centre.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. Ordination is to the one office of the ministry of word and sacrament, and no man may publicly teach or administer the sacraments unless he is rightly called to it.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. Infants are baptised, and the Anabaptists are condemned by name in the Augsburg Confession for rejecting it.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. Intinction is practised in many Lutheran churches, though the ordinary manner is to receive the host and then the cup.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. The liturgical colours were retained, along with vestments, the church year and the historic lectionary, on the ground that such things are matters of freedom and not of salvation.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. The daily office was retained rather than abolished, reduced to Matins and Vespers and put into the language of the people.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. Marriage is a civil estate blessed by the church rather than a sacrament, and Lutheran clergy marry.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. Matins is kept in Lutheran service books, with the Benedictus as its gospel canticle.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. Sunday is kept for the sake of good order and of hearing the word, and the Augsburg Confession denies that the observance rests on divine law.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. The Small Catechism teaches morning and evening prayer, grace at table and the Lord's Prayer as the shape of household devotion.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. The breaking of the bread stands in the modern Lutheran books as a distinct action of the rite.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. Lutherans keep the liturgical shape but drop the language of sacrifice, teaching that Christ is truly present in, with and under the bread and wine, a presence distinguished from both transubstantiation and a merely symbolic view.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. The words of institution are the heart of the rite, and Lutheran theology locates the presence of the body and blood in Christ's own words rather than in a prayer of the church.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. Vespers is kept in Lutheran service books, with the Magnificat as its gospel canticle.