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A free church is any Christian denomination that is intrinsically separate from government. A free church neither defines government policy, nor accepts church theology or policy definitions from the
Free Church of Tampere, Finland
Nonconformists are Protestant Christians who do not "conform" to the governance and usages of the established church in England, and in Wales until 1914, the Church of England.
Free church
…of the "Free Church". In England and Wales in the late 19th century the new terms "free churchman" and "Free Church" started to replace "dissenter" or Nonconformist. Among the Methodist Churches, calling a church "free" does not indicate any particular relation to a government. Rather the Free Methodist Church is…
Title page of a collection of Farewell Sermons preached by Nonconformist ministers ejected from their parishes in 1662
Bunyan Meeting Free Church, a Nonconformist chapel in Bedford. Dissenter John Bunyan purchased a barn in 1672 for a meeting place. A meeting house replaced it in 1707 and this chapel was built in 1850.
Flagellation of a nonconformist in London in 1685
Methodist minister Hugh Price Hughes encouraged Nonconformists to support the Liberal Party.