Greenland was resettled in the 18th century by Danish explorers, who were overwhelmingly Lutheran. The Catholic Church was therefore suppressed and persecuted in the country, with the faith effectively banned on the island until 1953 when religious liberty was declared.
In 1972, Catholics in Greenland finally got a church again: Christ the King Church, in the city of Nuuk. In 1980, the Little Sisters of Jesus sent three sisters to Greenland to found a fraternity, which has since grown into a convent.
Today, the Church in Greenland remains small; there is only one parish in the country, with about 50 registered Catholics in a nation of 53,000 people. The Diocese of Gardar, being sede vacante for some five centuries, has ceased to exist, and Greenland is now under the jurisdiction of the bishop of Copenhagen.
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