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

Rites & Ritual

what its people do — and when All 1 →
Daily
The Daily Texts — one verse, drawn by lot, read by the whole church. Since 1731 the Moravians have drawn the year's Old Testament verses by lot from a fixed pool and printed them a year ahead. It is the longest-running daily devotional in continuous publication, appears in more than fifty languages, and is read by far more non-Moravians than Moravians. When Daily — the Losung, a verse drawn by lot and printed a year in advanceWho Every Moravian household, and readers well outside the church Go deeper — context →

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

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