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Altar and pulpit fellowship describes an ecumenical collaboration between two Christian organizations, and is a Lutheran term for full communion, [1] or communio in sacris. [2] Altar refers to the altar in Christian churches, which holds the sacrament of Holy Communion. Pulpit refers to the pulpit, from which a pastor preaches.
October 14–24: Ninth synodical convention meets at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne. [17] Altar and pulpit fellowship with the Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (Norwegian Synod) is recognized. [23] The synod assumes control of the Milwaukee teachers seminary and moves it to Fort Wayne. [24] [25] 1859
The American Association of Lutheran Churches (AALC, also known as The AALC or TAALC) is a Lutheran church body based in the United States. It was formed on November 7, 1987, as a continuation of the American Lutheran Church denomination, the majority of which merged with the Lutheran Church in America and the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches to form the Evangelical Lutheran Church ...
Since 1984, the member churches are in pulpit and altar fellowship, with common doctrine as the basis of membership and mission activity. The LWF now has 149 member church bodies in 99 countries representing over 77 million Lutherans; [ 1 ] as of 2022, it is the sixth-largest Christian communion (see list of denominations by membership ).
The case is much different in the Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Germany. This church is a confessional Lutheran church in full "pulpit and altar fellowship" (full communion) with the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. Because of the confessional Lutheran direction, there is a high church movement in that Church. [13] [14]
In 1945, the name was shortened to Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Church. By 1959, the use of Slovak as a primary liturgical language had died out and the denomination was renamed the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, thereby retaining SELC as its acronym. [2] The SELC entered into altar and pulpit fellowship with the LCMS in 1903. [1]
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Augsburg Confession in Russia [J] 2006--[258] South Africa: United Lutheran Church in South Africa [I] 1997--[259] Sudan: Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sudan and South Sudan [H] [K] 1993: 20,000 [260] [261] [262] Serbia: Evangelical Christian Church of Augsburg Confession in Serbia 1998 10000 Sweden: Concordia ...
The Synodical Conference was founded at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a member at that time of the Wisconsin Synod.. In October 1870 the Ohio Synod contacted the Illinois, Missouri, Norwegian, and Wisconsin synods to see if they would be interested in a union of Midwestern confessional synods.