Folkekirken

E186879

Folkekirken is the national Evangelical Lutheran church of Denmark and the largest Christian denomination in the country.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Church of Denmark 2
Folkekirken canonical 2
Folkekirken (People's Church of Denmark) 1

Statements (69)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian denomination
Evangelical Lutheran church
national church
allowsWomenBishops yes
allowsWomenPriests yes
alsoKnownAs Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark
surface form: Church of Denmark

Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark
surface form: Den danske folkekirke
baptismPractice infant baptism
cathedralChurch Copenhagen Cathedral
celebratesFeast Christmas
Easter
Pentecost
classification Protestantism
clergyEducation theology degrees from Danish universities
confessionalBasis Augsburg Confession
Lutheran confessions
constitutionalProvision 1953 Constitution of Denmark
surface form: Danish Constitution §4
country Denmark
dateOfReformationInDenmark 1536
denomination Lutheranism
foundingCentury 16th century
funding church tax
state subsidies
governance state church
hasBishops yes
hasCalendar liturgical year
hasClergyType bishops
priests
hasDiocese Diocese of Aalborg
Diocese of Aarhus
Diocese of Copenhagen
Diocese of Haderslev
Diocese of Helsingør
Diocese of Lolland-Falster
Diocese of Odense
Diocese of Ribe
Diocese of Roskilde
Diocese of Viborg
hasHymnBook Den Danske Salmebog
hasOfficialStatusInConstitutionOf Denmark
hasParishCouncil yes
hasParishStructure yes
headOfChurch Monarch of Denmark
historicalOrigin Protestant Reformation in Denmark–Norway
surface form: Danish Reformation
isEstablishedChurchIn Denmark
isLargestChristianDenominationIn Denmark
isNationalChurchOf Denmark
isSubjectTo Danish law
languageOfLiturgy Danish
liturgicalTradition Lutheran liturgy
membershipType baptized members
numberOfDioceses 10
orientation mainline Protestant
performsRite Holy Eucharist
surface form: Holy Communion

baptism
confirmation
funerals
weddings
polity episcopal polity
primaryScripture Bible
recognizesAsSupremeBishop no single person
religion Christianity
separatedFrom Catholic Church worldwide
surface form: Roman Catholic Church
supremeAuthority Folketing
surface form: Danish Parliament

Government of Denmark
theology Evangelical Lutheran theology
usesCreed Apostles’ Creed
surface form: Apostles Creed

Athanasian Creed
Nicene Creed

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Folkekirken
Description of subject: Folkekirken is the national Evangelical Lutheran church of Denmark and the largest Christian denomination in the country.

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Aakirkeby religiousAffiliationOfMainChurch Folkekirken
this entity surface form: Church of Denmark
Diocese of Odense affiliation Folkekirken
this entity surface form: National church of Denmark
Diocese of Viborg partOf Folkekirken
this entity surface form: Church of Denmark
Diocese of Ribe isPartOf Folkekirken
Diocese of Roskilde hasOfficialReligionContext Folkekirken
this entity surface form: Folkekirken (People's Church of Denmark)