Moravian
- Grew from
- Hussite
- From
- 1722 AD
- Origin
- Herrnhut, Saxony
- Confession
- The Ground of the Unity 1957 AD
The Unitas Fratrum, gathered from the Hussite remnant in 1457, was nearly extinguished in the Thirty Years' War. Survivors given refuge on Count Zinzendorf's estate in Saxony renewed it in 1722 as a community that sent missionaries out of all proportion to its size, and whose members deeply impressed John Wesley on his Atlantic crossing.
What marks it out
A prayer meeting begun in 1727 and kept in hourly shifts for a hundred years. The first large Protestant missionary movement, sending workers to the Caribbean, Greenland and southern Africa decades before the societies that usually get the credit. Settlements ordered into choirs by age and marital state, and disputed questions settled by lot.
Figures
- Nikolaus von Zinzendorf
1700–1760
Sheltering the Moravians, and sending them everywhere
In the record
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1792–1910 AD Migration
The modern missionary movement
European and American missions planted churches across the global south, which is where most Christians now live.
This body appears in the history but does not carry recorded doctrinal positions here, so it is absent from the comparison panels.