Schwenkfelder Church

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Schwenkfelder Church
Classification	Protestant
Orientation	Anabaptist
Region	United States
Origin	1909 Pennsylvania, U.S.
Congregations	4 (2024)
Members	2,695 (2010)
Official website	schwenkfelderchurch.org

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The Schwenkfelder Church (listen^ⓘ) is a small American Christian body rooted in the 16th-century Protestant Reformation teachings of Caspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig (1489–1561).^[1]

^ Caspar Schwenckfeld (1907). Letters and Treaties of Caspar Schwenkfeld Von Ossig ...: A study of the earliest letters. Breitkopf & Härtel. pp. 10–.

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