National church
- This article discusses 'national churches' in the ethnic sense. See state church for church organizations at a national level. For Catholic churches in Rome associated with various countries, see National churches in Rome.
A National church is a Christian church associated with a specific ethnic group or nation state. The idea was notably discussed during the 19th century, during the emergence of modern nationalism.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in a draft discussing the question of church and state around 1828 wrote that