The Christ the King Church (Danish: Krist Konge Kirke) is the name given to a religious building that is affiliated with the Catholic Church and is located in the city of Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, a dependent territory with status of autonomous country of the Kingdom of Denmark in North America.The temple follows the Roman or Latin rite and depends on the Catholic diocese of Copenhagen, Denmark-based. 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 Christ the King Church (Danish: Krist Konge Kirke) is the name given to a religious building that is affiliated with the Catholic Church and is located in the city of Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, a dependent territory with status of autonomous country of the Kingdom of Denmark in North America.The temple follows the Roman or Latin rite and depends on the Catholic diocese of Copenhagen, Denmark-based.