Sveriges Kristna Råd

Christian Council of Sweden

Member churches

From the Assembly 2009 the following churches are recognised within the CCS:

The Lutheran Church Family
Church of Sweden (with Swedish Evangelical Mission)
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church
Hungarian Protestant Church
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church

The Roman Catholic Church Family
Catholic Diocese of Stockholm (covering the whole of Sweden)

The Orthodox Church Family
Armenian Apostolic Church
Assyrian Church of the East
Bulgarian Orthodox Church
Coptic Orthodox Church
Estonian Orthodox Church in Sweden (Under the Greek Metropolitanate of Sweden and all Scandinavia)
Ethiopian Orthodox Church
Finnish Orthodox Parish in Sweden (Under the Greek Metropolitanate of Sweden and all Scandinavia)
Macedonian Orthodox Church
Old Church of the East
Romanian Orthodox Church
Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)
Serbian Orthodox Church
Syrian Orthodox Church
West European Russian Orthodox Exarchate

The Free Church Family
Baptist Union of Sweden
InterAct
Mission Covenant Church
Methodist Church
Pentecostal Movement
Salvation Army
Seventh-day Adventist (observer)
Swedish Alliance Mission
Vineyard Norden

Christian Council of Sweden is an open ecumenical forum for churches in Sweden. The council has 27 member churches. They are divided into four church families - the Free church family, the Catholic church family, the Lutheran church family and the Orthodox church family. The nucleus of the councils ministry is where the churches together highlight the most central areas for ecumenical reflection and cooperation. These core areas are: Ecumenical theology, Mission and Evangelism, Ecumenical diaconia/Church-Society.

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