Yes, some do. Anglican churches have had communities of sisters under vows since 1845. Lutheran and Reformed Christians founded sisterhoods of their own, mostly in Germany and Switzerland, and many Protestant churches once had deaconess communities of unmarried women. Most Baptist, evangelical and other free churches have no nuns. Which Protestant churches have nuns? Anglicans have the most. Henry VIII dissolved the religious orders when he broke the Church of England from Rome. The first sisterhood restored within it was…

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