The Moravian Church (Unitas Fratrum)

Denomination·Founded 1457 CE·The worldwide Unity is organised into provinces, mission provinces and mission areas rather than a single membership roll, and does not publish one consolidated figure. The Tanzanian provinces together account for roughly 800,000 members and are by a wide margin the largest part of the church; the historic European and North American provinces are small and shrinking.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → The Moravian Church (Unitas Fratrum)

The Moravian Unity (Unitas Fratrum)ArchiveMoravian Archives, Bethlehem

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Overview Belief 3How to Live 1Practice 1Stories & Scripture 1Community 1 You × The Moravian Church (Unitas Fratrum) Discussion

Figures

who it looks to — gods, spirits, ancestors; some rooms are empty on principle Part of Belief →
Z Zinzendorf — the count who housed the refugees and then joined them. A Saxon nobleman raised in Halle Pietism who gave land to Moravian exiles in 1722, took over their community, was exiled from Saxony for it in 1736, was consecrated a bishop in 1737, and ran a global mission network out of a village. He wrote roughly 2,000 hymns. Domain The Herrnhut renewal, the mission programme, the theology of the heartStanding Read with affection and with reservations, including inside the church Meet them — context →

Numbers count Panfaith activity only — never real-world adherence.

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