Baptist Union of Sweden

Baptist Union of Sweden
ClassificationBaptist
(Swedish Baptists)
OrientationProtestantism
TheologyBaptist
HeadquartersSweden
SeparationsFree Baptist Union (1872), Swedish Pentecostal Movement (early 1900s), Örebro Mission (1936)
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The Baptist Union of Sweden (Swedish: Svenska Baptistsamfundet) was a Baptist union in Sweden. In 2011–2012, they merged to form a new denomination, Joint Future Church, now called Uniting Church in Sweden.

The first known Baptist church in Sweden was organized on September 21, 1848, in Vallersvik, where a group of people committed the first-known Baptist baptism in Sweden. The Conventicle Act was in effect at the time, outlawing all religious meetings other than those of the Lutheran Church of Sweden.[1] The new movement's leader, F.O. Nilsson, was exiled.[2] Others were fined or jailed. A few years later, in 1858, the law was abolished, and religious groups other than the official state church (free churches) were allowed to work.

  1. ^ "1305-1306 (Nordisk familjebok / 1800-talsutgåvan. 8. Kaffrer - Kristdala)". runeberg.org (in Swedish). 1884. Retrieved 2021-07-24.
  2. ^ Gustafson, David M (2008). D.L. Moody and Swedes: shaping evangelical identity among Swedish mission friends, 1867-1899. Linköping: Linköping University, Department of culture and communication. ISBN 978-91-7393-995-9. OCLC 225548281.