Church Of Norway

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Church of Norway (Den norske kirke in Bokmal or Den norske kyrkja in Nynorsk) is the state church and the largest church in Norway, established after the Lutheran reformation in Denmark-Norway in 1536-1537 broke ties with the Holy See. The Church professes the Lutheran Christian faith, with its foundation on the Bible, the Apostles\', Nicene and Athanasian Creeds, Luther\'s Small Catechism and the Augsburg Confession. The Church is a member of the Porvoo Communion with 12 other churches, among them the Anglican Churches of Europe. It has also signed some other ecumenical texts, including the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification with the Roman Catholic Church. Until 1969, the church\'s name for administrative purposes was simply the State Church or sometimes just the Church, whereas the Constitution described it as the Evangelical-Lutheran Church. A constitutional amendment of 2009/2012 designates the church as "Norway\'s people\'s church" ("Norges Folkekirke"), with a new provision that is almost a verbatim copy of the provision for the Danish state church (Folkekirken) in the Constitution of Denmark, and the church remains a state-funded state church, but with increased autonomy in appointments of clergy. Minister of Church Affairs Trond Giske was responsible for proposing the amendments, explaining that "the state church is retained." Dannoe izdanie predstavlyaet soboj kompilyatsiyu svedenij, nahodyaschihsya v svobodnom dostupe v srede Internet v tselom, i v informatsionnom setevom resurse "Vikipediya" v chastnosti. Sobrannaya po chastotnym zaprosam ukazannoj tematiki, dannaya kompilyatsiya postroena po printsipu podbora blizkih informatsionnyh ssylok, ne imeet samostoyatelnogo syuzheta, ne soderzhit nikakih analiticheskih materialov, vyvodov, otsenok moralnogo, eticheskogo, politicheskogo, religioznogo i mirovozzrencheskogo haraktera v otnoshenii glavnoj tematiki, predstavlyaya soboj isklyuchitelno faktologicheskij material. This book was created using print-on-demand technology.