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	Orthodox-Catholic Church of America -- History
		The catholicity of the Church is rightly expressed in several consciousnesses of the same truth actualized in each particular people upon whom the Holy Spirit confers grace, with the sum of the several not being greater than a consciousness according to the whole.
		It is a sad commentary that the established church, with a clear and definite message to apply to the salvation of both souls and nations, was mute in a Western world and society perishing for need of the truth and the effectual power of Christ and His Church.
		A protocol of the Bishops stated in part: "We are a Church open to all men of all nationalities having residence on the cultural, social and secular soil of this land, but united under the true Catholic Faith, and imbued with the genius of the western spirit and the American concept of liberty and freedom.
	www.orthodoxcatholicchurch.org /history.html (7964 words)

	Catholic Church in Sweden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is one of the fastest growing Roman Catholic Churches in Europe, despite the wide-spread secularism in Sweden.
		The Roman Catholic Church was the established church of Sweden from the Middle Ages until the Protestant Reformation in the 16th Century, when the King Gustav I broke off relations.
		(The Armenian Roman Catholics are primarily from Poland, and not from the older Armenian Catholic Church.)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roman_Catholicism_in_Sweden (449 words)

	Lutheran Church of Sweden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The doctrinal basis of the Lutheran Church of Sweden is the Augsburg confession, which is itself the principal confession of the Lutheran Church.
		The church was influential in the formation of the World Council of Churches in 1948, and in 1968 hosted the fourth meeting of the World Council of Churches at Uppsala.
		The logo of the Church of Sweden is red cross on a yellow shield.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/christ/cep/lcs.html (496 words)

	Church of Sweden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Church was established in the 16th century when Sweden broke away from the Catholic Church and became a Lutheran Church.
		Protestant Reformation in Sweden was led by King Gustav Vasa assisted by clergymen primarily the brothers Olaus Petri and Laurentius Petri in Sweden and Mikael Agricola in Finland.
		As a state church during the 20th century bishops were nominated by a conclave clerics and then formally appointed by the Government of Sweden ultimately depending on legislation by the Parliament of Sweden.
	www.freeglossary.com /Church_of_Sweden (490 words)

	Religious flags in Sweden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Church of Sweden is a Lutheran Christian church, the biggest religious society in Sweden, and was the state church until 31 December 1999.
		A commonly used flag at churches is the flag of the Church of Sweden.
		It is the flag of the Catholic cathedral, not of the Catholic Church in Sweden.
	www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/se-relig.html (198 words)

	Sweden Info
		Sweden, which occupies the eastern part of the Scandinavian peninsula, is the fourth-largest country in Europe, and is one-tenth larger than California.
		Sweden emerged from the Napoleonic Wars with the acquisition of Norway from Denmark and with a new royal dynasty stemming from Marshal Jean Bernadotte of France, who became King Charles XIV (181844).
		The artificial union between Sweden and Norway led to an uneasy relationship, and the union was finally dissolved in 1905.
	wjwarnick.tripod.com /warnickfamilyhistory/id9.html (1204 words)

	Encyclopedia topic: Catholic Church in Sweden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		It is one of the fastest growing Roman Catholic Churches in Europe (The 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles), despite the wide-spread secularism (A doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations) in Sweden.
		It was the single church in Sweden, until the middle of the 19th century (additional info and facts about 19th century) when other churches were allowed.
		In the greater towns they have their own masses, and in Stockholm (The capital and largest city of Sweden; located in southern Sweden on the Baltic) one of the Protestant churches is used twice on Sunday since the Roman Catholic churches are too small.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/catholic_church_in_sweden.htm (456 words)

	Church of Sweden
		The marriage between church and state was so strong that it took an act of parliament to change the prayer book and bishops were chosen by the Cabinet.
		Particularly in smaller towns, the church building tends to be a community center, serving as meeting hall, theater, nursery school and finish line for the ski races that fill the dark winters of rural Scandinavia.
		By delaying the change until 2000, Sweden was one of the last countries in Western Europe to sever the connection between the state and an officially sanctioned church.
	www.adherents.com /largecom/com_sweden.html (723 words)

	Vatican City article - Vatican City enclave Rome Italy Pope Holy Roman Catholic Church Vatican Hill - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		In 326 the first church was built on the supposed site of the tomb of Saint Peter, and from then on the area started to become more populated.
		Popes in their secular role gradually extended their control over neighbouring regions and through the Papal States ruled a large portion of the Italian peninsula for more than a thousand years until the mid 19th century, when most of the territory of the Papal States was seized by the newly united Kingdom of Italy.
		The Vatican is technically a rare case of a non-hereditary elective monarchy; the monarch, the Pope, being elected for life by those Cardinals under the age of 80 during a Conclave (held in the Sistine Chapel).
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Vatican_City (955 words)

	Sweden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Sweden was first mentioned in the 1st century, by Roman historian Tacitus, who wrote that the Suiones tribe lived out in the sea and were powerful in both arms and ships.
		Sweden was part of the Marshall aid package but continued to stay non-aligned during the Cold War, and is still not a member of any military alliance.
		In the south of Sweden leaf-bearing trees are prolific, in the north pines, spruces and hardy birches dominate the landscape.
	www.vacilando.org /_cliextra/baghdadmuseumorg/includepage.php?title=Sweden&action=edit (4445 words)

	Sveriges Kristna Råd
		The churches meet in the council to search for, express and deepen their Christian unity, share experiences and together show the world that they have a faith that unites and challenges.
		The churches are divided into four church families - the Free church family, the Catholic church family, the Lutheran church family and the Orthodox church family.
		Archbishop Anders Wejryd, Church of Sweden, is president of the Christian Council of Sweden.
	www.skr.org /english.4.ec944110677af1e83800015072.html (242 words)

	Cath_Links_Various_Churches
		The Catholic* Patriarchate of Cilicia of the Armenians:
		, Patriarch of Cilicia of the Catholic Armenians)
		The Orthodox Church of the Czech and Slovak Republics.
	www.tboyle.net /Catholicism/Cath_Links_Various_Churche.html (1544 words)

	Catholic Links
		The Catholic Church in Sweden - The Catholic Diocese of Stockholm
		Catholic Educator's Resource Center web site "The site provides an internet library of journal articles, essays, book excerpts, and other texts chosen for their objective, concise, and clear presentation of Catholic teachings, history, and culture, particularly in those areas in which the Church's role is unknown or misunderstood."
		The Catholic Church in Fareham and Portchester serves an area of southern Hampshire between the cities of Southampton and Portsmouth.
	www.katolik.nu /now/html/links1.htm (393 words)

	THE OLD CATHOLIC CHURCH
		The Old Catholic Church in the USA and Canada is not well organized or unified.
		church" as it is understood by the Union of Utrecht College of Bishops and theologians.
		The ecclesial structure of the Old Catholic Church is built upon the theory of conciliarism.
	hometown.aol.com /heartlandoldcath/myhomepage/faith.html (754 words)

	Catholic Church and Sweden being destroyed because of neutrality during WWII? - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The blessing of Abraham given to Jacob is the new covenent and the promise as it pertains to Isaac's son (Jacob-Israel).
		The Church did declare an official position of neutrality, and did little to intervene either way, and as such, because they did not slaver for Nazi blood, are hated and villified by the leftists, jew$ especially.
		You can bet anything the jew$ want to break down the Catholic Church, their ancient enemy, and if this is true, it wouldn't surprise me. You can also bet more goes on behind the scenes than we realize.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=184266 (2212 words)

	Theses from Uppsala University : 706 - Från invandrarkyrka till mångkulturellt samfund
		This dissertation is focusing upon the Catholic Church of Sweden and her transformation from a marginal minority church of immigrants to a multicultural congregation, which has become the second in size after the Lutheran State Church.
		The principal part of this study is to increase the sociological knowledge about the Catholic Church of Sweden and analyse the future crossroads the Church will be facing in the future and how the social-pastoral work is being effected by external and internal factors.
		The dissertation concludes that the Catholic Church in Sweden has a multicultural composition of her members, her leadership is multicultural but without a manifested multicultural vision.
	publications.uu.se /theses/abstract.xsql?isbn=91-628-3502-5 (421 words)

	Patron Saints :: Catholic Saints :: Catholic Church Saints::All Saints Day
		Common commemorations, by several churches, of the deaths of martyrs began to be celebrated in the 4th century.
		The festival was retained after the Reformation in the calendar of the Church of England and in that of many of the Lutheran churches.
		In the Lutheran churches, such as the Church of Sweden, it assumes a role of general commemoration of the dead (similar to the All Souls commemoration in the Eastern Orthodox Church that takes place two Saturdays before the beginning of Lent).
	www.catholicchurchsaints.com /AllSaintsDay.htm (686 words)

	Sweden
		Sweden emerged from the Napoleonic Wars with the acquisition of Norway from Denmark and with a new royal dynasty stemming from Marshal Jean Bernadotte of France, who became King Charles XIV (1818–1844).
		Sweden: Kings and Queens - Kings and Queens Karl XII (1697–1718) Ulrica Eleonora (1719–1720) Fredrik I...
		Charles IX, king of Sweden - Charles IX, 1550–1611, king of Sweden (1604–11), youngest son of Gustavus I. He was...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0108008.html (881 words)

	Roman Catholic Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The centrally ruled Roman Catholic hoists this flag all over the world, the last time to be seen during the Pope's visit in Poland.
		This flag is usually flown outside Catholic Churches It has the same dimensions as the Vatican flag except it is blue and white.
		I've been told that in Poland it is referred to as the "National Church", but in doing a bit of web searching this morning I found that one of the groups in Poland is using the name "Polish Catholic Church".
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/rel-rc.html (445 words)

	Covenant News - Swedish Bishop: Find Time to Dialogue with God (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		He is the seventh Catholic Bishop of Stockholm in the 450 years since the Reformation and the first Swedish-born Catholic Bishop.
		It is the second largest denomination in Sweden - the Swedish Lutheran Church is the largest.
		The Catholic Church and the Covenant Church of Sweden have had an ongoing relationship over the past 25 years, Bishop Aborelius said.
	www.covchurch.org /cov/news/item1817.phtml (679 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Gay rights bill tests Spanish values
		Granting the gay community the legal right to marry is not some whim this socialist administration dreamt up over its first summer in government.
		It has accused the Socialist government of pursuing an "aggressively secular" agenda and of threatening the institutions of marriage and family in Spain.
		Earlier this week, the spokesman for the Catholic Bishops Conference, Juan Antonio Martinez Camino, likened legalising gay marriage to releasing a virus into Spanish society.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3706106.stm (699 words)

	Touchstone Magazine 11.6 - TITLE_HERE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		A venerable figure of the “orthodox opposition” in the Church of Sweden has described the exhibition as “apocalyptic blasphemy,” probably referring to 2 Thessalonians 2:4.
		Pentecostalist and Catholic representatives on the Council for Ecumenical Relations in Sweden have declared that Hammar’s continuance as their chairman is unacceptable to them.
		This past summer, in an interview in a Swedish church newspaper, again according to Dr. Olofsson, Hammar declared that he had no objections to “same-sex unions” and favored church blessings for them; he noted that his sister is openly lesbian.
	www.touchstonemag.com /docs/issues/11.6docs/berserker.html (354 words)

	The ECC - What She Believes
		The Evangelical Catholic Church confesses one Baptism (for adults and infants), and insists that Baptism is necessary to salvation.
		The Evangelical Catholic Church, together with the entire Church Catholic, affirms that there is a proper use of the Reservation of The Holy Sacrament when given to the sick, the dying, or as an indication of intercommunion.
		The Evangelical Catholic Church accepts the prophetic and apostolic Scriptures of The Old and The New Testaments as the sole rule and standard according to which all doctrine and practice, together with all priests and teachers, should be estimated and judged (ECC Canons, II,2).
	members.aol.com /HzAlexis/index.HTML (5106 words)

	SWEDEN.SE - Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		There are about 165,000 Roman Catholics in Sweden today - almost 2 % of the Swedish population of 8.8 million.
		The Church of Sweden is an Evangelical Lutheran community of faith manifested in parishes and dioceses.
		The Church of Sweden also has a national organization and is an open national church which, working with a democratic organization and through the...
	www.sweden.se /templates/cs/Print_Links.aspx?id=1993&cats=59,131 (180 words)

	Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland Grand Orange Lodge
		Recently, the Lutheran Bishop of Linkoping, in Sweden, told an invited audience in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, that he felt sadness that ecumenical relations with the Roman Catholic church in Sweden had moved from 'spring' to 'autumn' in his country.
		Protestants know only too well that their churches are regarded as inferior by a Church which has always been intolerant towards those it perceives as heretical.
		Let's reflect on what the Church of Rome did say in 2001 in that now infamous Dominus Jesus document, which was signed by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly the Inquisition.
	www.grandorange.org.uk /press/Orange-Standard/2005-Standard/0506-June2005/article6.html (776 words)

	Sweden
		Along Sweden's rocky coast, chopped up by bays and inlets, are many islands, the largest of which are Gotland and Öland.
		In the 11th century, Olaf Sköttkonung became the first Swedish king to be baptized as a Christian.
		In 1520, the Danish king Christian II conquered Sweden and in the Stockholm Bloodbath” put leading Swedish personages to death.
	members.chello.nl /~c.vandekerkhof/images/trips/sweden.htm (272 words)

	ipedia.com: Catholic Church of Sweden Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Catholic Church of Sweden is a relatively small but growing Roman Catholic Church in the predominantly Protestant country of Sweden.
		The Catholic Church of Sweden has been a recognised Church since 2000, until which the Lutheran Church was the state church, and no other churches were registered.
		In 2000 this policy was dropped, and the Catholic Church was officially recognised.
	www.ipedia.com /catholic_church_of_sweden.html (395 words)

	Keeping Catholics Catholic Page XXV-The Timeline-The Seventeenth Century
		The world witnessed the glorious deaths of countless Martyrs and two distinct conspiracies against the Catholic Church in England, one of which was the deathblow.
		The Catholic Church was once again under attack from the relatively new Protestantism, and the printing of their own version of the Bible; as well as other heretics and heresies; and the brilliance of Saints Francis De Sales and Cardinal Robert Bellarmine.
		These men acted on their own and the Catholic Church knew nothing of the Plot until after it was exposed.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Ithaca/6461/17cent.html (3345 words)

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