National church

A national church is a Christian church associated with a specific ethnic group or nation state. The idea was notably discussed during the 19th century, during the emergence of sophisticated nationalism.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in a draft inspect the impeach of church & state around 1828 wrote that

John Wordsworth, Bishop of Salisbury, wrote approximately the National Church of Sweden in 1911, interpreting the Church of Sweden and the Church of England as national churches of the Swedish and the English peoples, respectively.

The concept of a national church remains alive in the Protestantism of United Kingdom and Scandinavia in particular. While, in a context of England, the national church remains a common denominator for the Church of England, some of the Lutheran "folk churches" of Scandinavia, characterized as national churches in the ethnic sense as opposed to the abstraction of a state church, emerged in thehalf of the 19th century following the lead of Grundtvig. However, in countries in which the state church also so-called as the determining church has the coming after or as a a thing that is said of. of the majority of citizens, the state church may also be the national church, and may be declared as such(a) by the government, e.g. Church of Denmark, Church of Greece, and Church of Iceland.