[1] When Swedish Covenanters emigrated to the United States and Canada in the last half of the 19th century, they formed the Evangelical Covenant Church (see Mission Friends).

[6] This led to a demand that the Swedish Evangelical Mission's missionaries should not be obliged to adhere to the Augsburg Confession.

[7][8] Jakob Ekman spearheaded the founding of the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden in 1878 and would become its first president.

[11][12][13][14] The church sent numerous missionaries to many countries around the world, such as China in the 19th and early 20th centuries, in particular Xinjiang, Japan, India, Russia and Caucasus, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Ecuador, Alaska, Spain and, in numbers of missionaries the largest field, Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Congo.

Missionaries and preachers were trained at two mission schools, located in Vinslöv in Scania and in Kristinehamn in eastern Värmland.

[16] The Mission Covenant Church of Sweden primarily held to the legacy of Lutheran Nyevangelism, Waldenström, and low-churchism, along with reformed, evangelical and charismatic elements.

There are also those who see a reformed influence already present in Carl Olof Rosenius of the Swedish Evangelical Mission and more clearly in Waldenström.

[20][21] The Mission Covenant Church of Sweden's tradition of ecumenism and freedom makes it difficult to place on the theological map.

While it was a member of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, its theology and practice showed a heritage from Luther rather than Calvin.

This article contains content from the Owl Edition of Nordisk familjebok, a Swedish encyclopedia published between 1904 and 1926, now in the public domain.