Groups the spreadevent entries documenting the Moravian Church's spread from its eighteenth century renewal at Herrnhut in Saxony, through an unusually early and extensive missionary program that established communities across the Caribbean, Greenland, North America, southern Africa and elsewhere well before most other Protestant bodies undertook comparable missions. Belongs here: any event marking the Moravian Church's establishment in a new territory. Does not belong here: the Herrnhut renewal's own founding events; the spread events of any other denomination.
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1. Moravian Church (Wikipedia)
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The Moravian Church, or the Moravian Brethren, formally the Unitas Fratrum, is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in Christianity, dating back to the Bohemian Reformation of the 15th century and the original Unity of the Brethren founded in the Kingdom of Bohemia, sixty years before Martin Luther's Reformation.
Wikipedia Moravian Church, lead section, era statement
The Moravian Church, or the Moravian Brethren, formally the Unitas Fratrum, is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in Christianity, dating back to the Bohemian Reformation of the 15th century and the original Unity of the Brethren founded in the Kingdom of Bohemia, sixty years before Martin Luther's Reformation.
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