Society of the Holy Cross particularly over the interpretation of scripture and the ordination of women. As of October 2017 there are over 1,000 members of the society organised into provinces for England and Scotland, the Americas, Wales and Australasia, each under a provincial master reporting to an international master general. There are also some members in the Lutheran Church of Sweden. The current master general of the society is Fr Nicolas Spicer SSC, also the provincial master for England and Scotland, who resides in England. The brethren are united together in their keeping of a common rule of life, which bears much in common
Society of the Friends of Peasants on income and with some of the members appointed by the king. It is to a large degree thanks to Bondevennerne that the 1849 constitution became as democratic as was the case. In 1848, the society was via War Minister Tscherning represented in the first Danish government after the absolute monarchy, the Cabinet of Moltke I, a coalition government that spanned the political spectrum. The number of members peaked in the middle of the 1850s at approximately 10,000, but due to internal conflicts and splits the influence of the society gradually dropped. The society was represented in government for the