A tendência nacionalizante das igrejas, no entanto, não esteve imune a críticas dentro da Cristandade. No Concílio Pan-Ortodoxo de 1872, foi denunciada como herética a doutrina do filetismo como heresia eclesiológica, deliberando-se que a Igreja Ortodoxa não deveria buscar organizar-se de acordo com as necessidades particulares de grupos étnicos[3] Entre os protestantes, Karl Barth denunciou no século XX como herética a nacionalização da religião cristã, especialmente no contexto das igrejas nacionais declarando guerra umas contra as outras durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial.[4]
↑Dag Thorkildsen, 'Scandinavia: Lutheranism and national identity', in World Christianities, c. 1815-1914, vol. 8 of The Cambridge history of Christianity, eds. Sheridan Gilley, Brian Stanley, Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-521-81456-0, pp. 342–358.
↑Barth, Ethnics, ed. Braun, transl. Bromiley, New York, 1981, p. 305.
↑Gelder, Craig Van (2008). The Missional Church and Denominations. [S.l.]: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 71. ISBN9780802863584. Germany's two churches (the National Church for the Protestants and the Roman Catholic Church) were “proper”with respect to their polities.
↑Ágoston, Gábor; Masters, Bruce Alan (1 de janeiro de 2009). Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. [S.l.]: Infobase Publishing. p. 53. ISBN9781438110257. 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 de janeiro de 2012). The Modern Balkans: A History. [S.l.]: Reaktion Books. p. 51. ISBN9781780230061. 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 (setembro de 2013). Changing European Death Ways. [S.l.]: LIT Verlag Münster. p. 178. ISBN9783643900678. 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.
↑Makari, Peter E. (2007). Conflict & Cooperation: Christian-Muslim Relations in Contemporary Egypt. [S.l.]: Syracuse University Press. p. 42. ISBN9780815631446. The Coptic Orthodox Church is the historic, and national, church of Egypt and is deeply tied to a monastic tradition of spiritual growth and preparation for ministry of monks and nuns, a tradition that continues to thrive.
↑Morton, Andrew R. (1994). God's Will in a Time of Crisis: A Colloquium Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Baillie Commission. Edinburgh: CTPI. p. 14. ISBN9781870126274. In October 1929, the Established Church and the United Free Church were united to form the national Church of Scotland.
↑Elvy, Peter (1991). Opportunities and Limitations in Religious Broadcasting. Edinburgh: CTPI. p. 23. ISBN9781870126151. 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. [S.l.: s.n.] p. 140. ISBN9780615218625. 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.
↑Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. [S.l.]: Britanncia Educational Publishing. 1 de junho de 2013. p. 77. ISBN9781615309955. One of Finland's national churches is the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (Finnish: Suomen Evankelis—luterilainen—kirkko), or simply the Church of Finland.
↑Kaplan, Robert B.; Baldauf, Richard B. (2005). Language Planning and Policy in Europe. [S.l.]: Multilingual Matters. p. 147. ISBN9781853598111. Currently, a clear majority of the population belongs to the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church, and 1% of the population are members of the other national church, the Finnish Orthodox Church (see Table 7).
↑Melton, J. Gordon; Baumann, Martin (21 de setembro de 2010). Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices. [S.l.]: ABC-CLIO. p. 1195. ISBN9781598842043. The Georgian Orthodox Church (GOC) is the Eastern Orthodox Christian body that serves as the national church of the Caucasian country of Georgia. The great majority of Georgians are members of the church.
↑Miller, James Edward (2009). The United States and the Making of Modern Greece: History and Power, 1950-1974. [S.l.]: Univ of North Carolina Press. p. 12. ISBN9780807832479. The creation of a national church of Greece, which the patriarch reluctantly recognized in 1850, set a pattern for other emerging Balkan states to form national churches independent of Constantinople.
↑Proctor, James (13 de maio de 2013). Faroe Islands. [S.l.]: Bradt Travel Guides. p. 19. ISBN9781841624563. 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.
↑Britannicus (1834). The Church of England. [S.l.: s.n.] 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.
↑Wilcox, Jonathan; Latif, Zawiah Abdul (1 de setembro de 2006). Iceland. [S.l.]: Marshall Cavendish. p. 85. ISBN9780761420743. The National Church of Iceland, formally called the Evangelical-Lutheran Church, is the state religion, and the president of Iceland is its supreme authority.
↑Ajami, Fouad (30 de maio de 2012). The Syrian Rebellion. [S.l.]: Hoover Press. p. 70. ISBN9780817915063. 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.
↑Rae, Heather (15 de agosto de 2002). State Identities and the Homogenisation of Peoples. [S.l.]: Cambridge University Press. p. 278. ISBN9780521797085. 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 de fevereiro de 2013). Law and Religion in the 21st Century: Relations between States and Religious Communities. [S.l.]: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 194. ISBN9781409497332. 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.
↑Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. [S.l.]: William Blackwood & Sons. 1895. p. 142. The Church in Wales [is] ... the National Church in every sense of the word, not only theoretically but practically.
↑Prizel, Ilya (13 de agosto de 1998). National Identity and Foreign Policy: Nationalism and Leadership in Poland, Russia and Ukraine. [S.l.]: Cambridge University Press. p. 155. ISBN9780521576970. Although nominally a national church, the Russian Orthodox Church developed from a defensive, nativist institution to the ideological foundation of an imperial idea.
↑Tomasevich, Jozo (1 de janeiro de 1975). The Chetniks. [S.l.]: Stanford University Press. p. 176. ISBN9780804708579. 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. [S.l.]: Cambridge University Press. p. 354. ISBN9780521814560. 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 de janeiro de 2009). Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania. [S.l.]: Infobase Publishing. p. 845. ISBN9781438119137. 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 de janeiro de 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. [S.l.]: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press. 199 páginas. ISBN9780920862759. For this reason the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was the true democratic national church of the Ukrainian nation.