Swedish Pentecostal Movement
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The Swedish Pentecostal Movement (Swedish: Pingströrelsen i Sverige) is a Pentecostal movement in Sweden. Many, but not all, of these, are members of the Pentecostal Alliance of Independent Churches, which was founded in 2001.[1] The Pentecostal movement spread to Sweden by 1907 from the 1904–1905 Welsh Revival and the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles in 1906.
Swedish Pentecostal Movement | |
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Classification | Protestant |
Orientation | Pentecostalism |
Polity | Congregational |
Region | Sweden |
Headquarters | Sweden |
Origin | 1906 |
Separations | Maranata Movement (around 1960) |
The Pentecostal Alliance of Independent Churches is made up of 439 churches and 87,392 members as of December 2017[update],[2] making it one of Sweden's largest free church organizations. The Pentecostal movement is also part of the broader Charismatic Christianity (which includes both Pentecostals and the non-Pentecostal Charismatic movement).