Location Nuuk, Greenland Denomination Roman Catholic Church Bishop Czeslaw Kozon | Country Denmark Parish Krist Konge Kirke | |
Diocese Roman Catholic Diocese of Copenhagen Similar Dyrehavsbakken, Tivoli Friheden, Fårup Summer Park, Legoland Billund Resort, Djurs Summer Park | ||
The Christ the King Church (Danish: Krist Konge Kirke) is the Roman Catholic church in the city of Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. It is the only functional Catholic church in Greenland.
The church follows the Roman or Latin rite and belongs to the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Copenhagen. Although Catholicism arrived in Greenland around the year 1000 when the first churches were built on the island in the thirteenth century most of the settlers had left the scene or had died, and after the Protestant Reformation of the fifteenth century, activities of the Catholic church they were limited and Christianity arrived to the island did so under the Danish Lutheran denomination. Today most of the congregation is made up of foreigners and a small group of locals. In 1980 the Sisters of Jesus established a small convent.
The Sunday masses are on 17:00 (5:00 pm) and are followed by a dinner.