کارل بارت گرایش «ملی کردن» خدای مسیحی، به ویژه در زمینه کلیساهای ملی که جنگ با سایر ملتهای مسیحی را در طول جنگ جهانی اول تحریم میکرد، به عنوان بدعت محکوم کرد.[30]
Ágoston, Gábor; Masters, Bruce Alan (1 January 2009). Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. Infobase Publishing. p.53. ISBN978-1-4381-1025-7. The Armenian Apostolic Church, sometimes referred to as the Gregorian Armenian Church by Western scholars, serves as the national church of the Armenian people.
Hall, Richard C. (1 January 2012). The Modern Balkans: A History. Reaktion Books. p.51. ISBN978-1-78023-006-1. While this did not restore the Ohrid patriarchate, it did acknowledge the separation between the Orthodox church in Constantinople and the Bulgarian Orthodox church, which was now free to develop as the Bulgarian national church.
Venbrux, Eric; Quartier, Thomas; Venhorst, Claudia; Brenda Mathijssen (September 2013). Changing European Death Ways. LIT Verlag Münster. p.178. ISBN978-3-643-90067-8. Simultaneously the church tax, ministers being public servants, and the status of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark as the national church indicate that the state lends its support to the church.
Britannicus (1834). The Church of England. p.17. Having, in my last, arrive at the great points which I wished to establish--the apostolicity, independence, and authority of the Church of England; and that she is necessarily the National Church, because Christianity is the National Religion.
Elvy, Peter (1991). Opportunities and Limitations in Religious Broadcasting. Edinburgh: CTPI. p.23. ISBN978-1-870126-15-1. Denominationally Estonia is Lutheran. During the time of national independence (1918-1940), 80% of the population belonged to the Lutheran National Church, about 17% were Orthodox Christians and the rest belonged to Free Churches.
Lorance, Cody (2008). Ethnographic Chicago. p.140. ISBN978-0-615-21862-5. Her findings show that the development of the national church of Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which began in the fourth century and made Christianity the state religion of Ethiopia, was also a major contributor to national development in the fields of independence, social progress, national unity and empowerment, literary development, arts, architecture, music, publication, and declaration of a national language and leadership, both spiritually and military.
Proctor, James (13 May 2013). Faroe Islands. Bradt Travel Guides. p.19. ISBN978-1-84162-456-3. Religion is important to the Faroese and 84% of the population belongs to the established national church in the islands, the Evangelical—Lutheran Foroya Kirkja, which has 61 churches in the Faroes and three out of every four marriages are held in one.
Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Britanncia Educational Publishing. 1 June 2013. p.77. ISBN978-1-61530-995-5. One of Finland's national churches is the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (Finnish: Suomen Evankelis—luterilainen—kirkko), or simply the Church of Finland.
Gelder, Craig Van (2008). The Missional Church and Denominations. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p.71. ISBN978-0-8028-6358-4. Germany's two churches (the National Church for the Protestants and the Roman Catholic Church) were “proper”with respect to their polities.
Wilcox, Jonathan; Latif, Zawiah Abdul (1 September 2006). Iceland. Marshall Cavendish. p.85. ISBN978-0-7614-2074-3. The National Church of Iceland, formally called the Evangelical-Lutheran Church, is the state religion, and the president of Iceland is its supreme authority.
"The Roman Catholic Church is the State Church and as such enjoys the
full protection of the State; other confessions shall be entitled to practise their
creeds and to hold religious services to the extent consistent with morality
and public order."
Constitution Religion. توسط Wayback Machine(بایگانیشده ۲۶ مارس ۲۰۰۹) (archived from the original on 2009-03-26).
Rae, Heather (15 August 2002). State Identities and the Homogenisation of Peoples. Cambridge University Press. p.278. ISBN978-0-521-79708-5. The creation of a national Church was also central to building national identity, with the Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC) established in 1967, much to the outrage of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Cristofori, Rinaldo; Ferrari, Silvio (28 February 2013). Law and Religion in the 21st Century: Relations between States and Religious Communities. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p.194. ISBN978-1-4094-9733-2. The State shall support all religious communities including the Church of Norway on an equal footing, but the Church of Norway shall 'remain the people's Church and is as such supported by the State', thereby upholding its function as a national Church.
There is no official census of religion in Russia, and estimates are based on surveys only. In August 2012, ARENA determined that about 46.8% of Russians are Christians (including Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, and non-denominational), which is slightly less than an absolute 50%+ majority. However, later that year the Levada Centerبایگانیشده در ۲۰۱۲-۱۲-۳۱ توسط Wayback Machine determined that 76% of Russians are Christians, and in June 2013 the Public Opinion Foundation determined that 65% of Russians are Christians. These findings are in line with Pew's 2010 survey, which determined that 73.3% of Russians are Christians, with VTSIOMبایگانیشده در ۲۹ سپتامبر ۲۰۲۰ توسط Wayback Machine's 2010 survey (~77% Christian), and with Ipsos MORIبایگانیشده در ۲۰۱۳-۰۱-۱۷ توسط Wayback Machine's 2011 survey (69%).
Tomasevich, Jozo (1 January 1975). The Chetniks. Stanford University Press. p.176. ISBN978-0-8047-0857-9. He also had the support of the Serbian Orthodox Church, which as a national church long identified with the national destiny and aspirations of the Serbian people was naturally inclined to identify itself with the movement that had the backing of the king and the Servian-dominated government-in-exile.
Gilley, Sheridan; Stanley, Brian (2006). The Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 8, World Christianities C.1815-c.1914. Cambridge University Press. p.354. ISBN978-0-521-81456-0. The Church of Sweden could be characterised as 'national church' or 'folk church', but not as 'state church', because the independence of the church was expressed by the establishment of a Church Assembly in 1863.
West, Barbara A. (1 January 2009). Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania. Infobase Publishing. p.845. ISBN978-1-4381-1913-7. A second important cultural feature of the Tuvaluan nation is the centrality of the national church, the Ekalesia o Tuvalu, or Church of Tuvalu, in which up to 97 percent of the population claims membership.
Velychenko, Stephen (1 January 1992). National History as Cultural Process: A Survey of the Interpretations of Ukraine's Past in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian Historical Writing from the Earliest Times to 1914. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press. p.199. ISBN978-0-920862-75-9. For this reason the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was the true democratic national church of the Ukrainian nation.
B. Shelledy, Robert (2003). Legions Not Always Visible on Parade: The Vatican's Influence in World Politics. University of Wisconsin--Madison. The Chaldean Church is located primarily in Iraq and functions in many ways like a national Orthodox Church.
Ajami, Fouad (30 May 2012). The Syrian Rebellion. Hoover Press. p.70. ISBN978-0-8179-1506-3. The Maronite Church is a national church. Its creed is attachment to Lebanon and its independence. The founding ethos of the Maronites is their migration from the Syrian plains to the freedom and “purity” of their home in Mount Lebanon.