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 modern nationalism.

[citation needed] Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in a draft discussing the question of church and state around 1828 wrote that John Wordsworth, Bishop of Salisbury, wrote about 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.

[5] Orthodox Church of Finland Eastern Orthodox 1.02% (2022) Evangelical Lutheran Church of France Lutheran Roman Catholic Church Catholic 26% (2021)[16] Chaldean Catholic Church[35] Syriac Catholic Church Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch Eastern Catholic Oriental Orthodox Karl Barth denounced as heretical the tendency of "nationalizing" the Christian God, especially in the context of national churches sanctioning warfare against other Christian nations during World War I.