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The Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Denmark or National Church (Danish: Folkekirken, lit. 'the People's Church', or unofficially den danske folkekirke, 'the Danish People's Church'; Greenlandic: Ilagiit, lit. 'the Congregation'), sometimes called the Church of Denmark, is the established, state-supported church in Denmark. [3]
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant church headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The ELCA was officially formed on January 1, 1988, by the merging of three Lutheran church bodies. As of December 31, 2023, it has approximately 2.79 million baptized members in 8,498 congregations. [3]
The Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church Association in America, or simply the Blair Church or the Danish Association, was founded in 1884 when a group of Danish congregations left the Conference of the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. [1]
The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), also known as the Missouri Synod, [1] is a confessional Lutheran denomination in the United States.With 1.7 million members as of 2022 [3] it is the second-largest Lutheran body in the United States, behind the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Martin's Church in 1877. In 1855 pastor Niels Pedersen Grunnet founded an evangelical-Lutheran congregation in Copenhagen. [1]The architects Alfred Jensen and August Johansen were commissioned to design a church for the congregation in the mid-1870s and a site was purchased on the east side of Vodroffsvej in Fredeirksberg.
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Denmark: Evangelical Lutheran Free Church in Denmark [C] 1855: 90 [146] Finland: Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland: 2013: 2,313 [147] France: Evangelical Lutheran Church - Synod of France: 1927: 821 [148] Germany: Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church: 1888: 33,474 [149] [150] Ghana: Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ghana [D] 1958 ...
The Danske Evangelist Lutheran Kirke (Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church; Denmark Evangelical Lutheran Church) is a church in Denmark, Kansas. It was added to the National Register in 1991. [1] It is a one-story gable-front building made of limestone. Its main portion was built in c.1875-1880 and its bell tower and entry were added in 1901.