Independent church

Independent church may refer to:

  • A self-governed church
  • National church, especially in Lutheranism, Anglicanism and Orthodox Christianity, the organisation of that denomination within a given nation, which acts independently of the churches of the same denomination in other nations.
  • Free church, as opposed to a state-sanctioned or established church
  • Non-denominational church
  • Independent (religion), as used in the 17th and 18th centuries
  • Independent Church (Hoton), an 1832 schismatic sect of the Latter Day Saint movement, in Kirtland, Ohio, US
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