Methodism

====Nordic and Baltic countries====
[[File:Methodist Church in Hammerfest.jpg|thumb|[[Hammerfest (town)|Hammerfest]] Methodist Church in Norway was the world's most northerly Methodist congregation when established in 1890.<ref name="Hassing1991">{{cite book |last=Hassing |first=Arne |title=Religion og makt: metodismen i norsk historie |journal=Relieff: Publications ed. By the Department of Religious Studies, University of Trondheim |publisher=Tapir |location=Trondheim |year=1991 |language=no |url=http://www.nb.no/nbsok/nb/43894f7f8a336cb52f35d03cf42f376d |isbn=82-519-0954-6 |issn=0333-029X |pages=35, 56}}</ref>]]
[[File:Methodist church, Tampere.jpg|thumb|left|Methodist church in [[Tampere]], Finland]]
The "Nordic and Baltic Area" of the United Methodist Church covers the [[Nordic countries]] (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland) and the [[Baltic countries]] (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania). Methodism was introduced to the Nordic countries in the late 19th century.<ref name="Hassing1991" /> Today the [[United Methodist Church in Norway]] ({{lang-no|Metodistkirken}}) is the largest annual meeting in the region with 10,684 members in total ({{as of|2013|lc=on}}).<ref name="Nordeuropa statistics" /> The [[United Methodist Church in Sweden]] ({{lang-sv|Metodistkyrkan}}) joined the [[Uniting Church in Sweden]] in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |title=Swedish Methodists join new denomination |url=https://www.umnews.org/en/news/swedish-methodists-join-new-denomination |website=United Methodist News Service |access-date=7 January 2022 |language=en |date=1 May 2012}}</ref>

[[File:Pilviškių metodistų bažnyčia.JPG|thumb|Methodist church in [[Pilviškiai]], Lithuania]]
In Finland, Methodism arrived through [[Ostrobothnians]] sailors in the 1860s, and Methodism spread especially in [[Swedish-speaking population of Finland|Swedish-speaking]] Ostrobothnia. The first Methodist congregation was founded in [[Vaasa]] in 1881 and the first Finnish-speaking congregation in [[Pori]] in 1887.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-01-19 |title=Metodistikirkon historia |trans-title=History of the Methodist Church |url=https://www.lappeenrannanmetodistiseurakunta.com/metodistikirkko/metodistikirkon-historia/ |access-date=2023-10-11 |website=Lappeenrannan metodistiseurakunta |language=fi}}</ref> At the turn of the century, the congregation in Vaasa became the largest and most active congregation in Methodism.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Björklund |first=Leif-Göte |title=Rikssvenska metodistpredikanters betydelse för metodistkyrkans framväxt och utveckling i Finland 1880-1923 |trans-title=The significance of National Swedish Methodist preachers for the rise and development of the Methodist Church in Finland 1880-1923 |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/39937811.pdf |location=Turku |publisher=Åbo Akademis förlag |date=2005 |isbn=951-765-241-0 |language=sv}}</ref>