Free Church
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The proper noun Free Church may refer to:

Europe-wide:
  • Evangelical Lutheran Free Church
    Evangelical Lutheran Free Church
    The Evangelical Lutheran Free Church is an orthodox Lutheran Church holding to the teachings of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession...



in Germany:
  • Evangelical Lutheran Free Church (Germany)
    Evangelical Lutheran Free Church (Germany)
    The Evangelical Lutheran Free Church is a small confessional Lutheran denomination based in Germany and western Austria. It currently consists of 1,470 members in 15 congregations, primarily located in former East Germany...

  • Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church
    Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church
    The Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church is a confessional Lutheran church body of Germany. It is a member of the European Lutheran Conference and a member of the International Lutheran Council . The SELK synod has about 36,000 members in 200 congregations...



in Iceland:
  • Reykjavík Free Church
    Reykjavík Free Church
    The Reykjavík Free Church is a church in the Free Lutheran congregation of Iceland. Its head priest is Hjörtur Magni Jóhannsson....



in Norway:
  • Evangelical Lutheran Free Church of Norway
    Evangelical Lutheran Free Church of Norway
    The Evangelical Lutheran Free Church, or the Free Church as it is commonly known, is a nationwide Lutheran church in Norway consisting of 81 congregations and 21,817 baptized members. It was founded in 1877 in Moss. It should not be confused with the Church of Norway, though both churches are...



in Scotland:
  • Free Church of Scotland (1843–1900)
  • Free Church of Scotland (post-1900)
  • Free Church of Scotland (Continuing)
    Free Church of Scotland (Continuing)
    The Free Church of Scotland is a Scottish Presbyterian denomination which was formed in January 2000...



in the United States:
  • Lutheran Free Church
    Lutheran Free Church
    The Lutheran Free Church was a Lutheran denomination that existed in the United States from 1897 to 1963 mainly in Minnesota and North Dakota...

    , 1897 to 1963
  • Association of Free Lutheran Congregations
    Association of Free Lutheran Congregations
    Association of Free Lutheran Congregations is the fifth largest Lutheran church body in the United States. The AFLC includes congregations in 27 different states, as well as four Canadian provinces. The AFLC is not an incorporated synod, but a free association. Each local congregation is a separate...

    , 1962-Present
  • Powers Church
    Powers Church
    The Powers Church is a historic church in rural Steuben County, Indiana, described as a "fine example of early northern Indiana Colonial Revival architecture"...

    , in Steuben County, Indiana, near Angola, also known as Free Church and listed as that on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)
  • Evangelical Free Church of America
    Evangelical Free Church of America
    The Evangelical Free Church of America is an evangelical Christian denomination. The EFCA was formed in 1950 from the merger of the Swedish Evangelical Free Church and the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Free Church Association.-History:...

    , Southbridge, Massachusetts, NRHP-listed
  • First Congregational Free Church
    First Congregational Free Church
    First Congregational Free Church is a historic church at 177 N. Main Street in Oriskany Falls, Oneida County, New York. It is a limestone structure started in 1833 and completed in 1845. It features a low gable roof surmounted by a tower consisting of a belfry and slender spire.It was listed on...

    , Oriskany Falls, New York, NRHP-listed
  • Free Church Parsonage
    Free Church Parsonage
    Free Church Parsonage is a historic church parsonage at the junction of William and Grinnell Streets in Rhinecliff, Dutchess County, New York. It was built about 1869 and is a -story, frame cottage with board-and-batten siding in the Gothic Revival style. It has a medium pitched gable roof and has...

    , Rhinecliff, New York, NRHP-listed
  • Free Church of the Good Shepherd, Raleigh, North Carolina, NRHP-listed

See also

  • Nonconformism
    Nonconformism
    Nonconformity is the refusal to "conform" to, or follow, the governance and usages of the Church of England by the Protestant Christians of England and Wales.- Origins and use:...

  • Free Presbyterian Church (disambiguation)
  • Free church
    Free church
    The term "free church" refers to a Christian denomination that is intrinsically separated from government . A free church does not define government policy, nor have governments define church policy or theology, nor seeks or receives government endorsement or funding for its general mission...

    , for wider information on churches not under government control
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