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Modern social upheavals have brought with them problems for the church in Iceland. Iceland is a modern and highly urbanized society, highly secularized with increasing pluralism of belief. About 62% of the population belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland [5] and over 90% of the populace belong to Christian churches. Nine out of ...
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, a mainline Protestant denomination in Chicago, Illinois Evangelical Lutheran Church (United States) , 1917–1960 Evangelical Lutheran Church (Frederick, Maryland)
The Lutheran Church in America (LCA) was created in 1962 by a merger among the United Lutheran Church in America (created in 1918 by an earlier merger of three German Lutheran synods in the eastern U.S.); Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, of Swedish ethnicity with some dating to the colonial era; the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of ...
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The Icelandic Evangelical Lutheran Synod of America was a Lutheran church body in North America. The synod was founded in June 1885 at a constitutional convention [citation needed] in Winnipeg, Manitoba. [2] The early churches in this body were located in Manitoba and North Dakota.
Reykjavík Cathedral (Icelandic: Dómkirkjan í Reykjavík) is a cathedral church in Reykjavík, Iceland, the seat of the Bishop of Iceland and mother church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland, as well as the parish church of the old city centre and environs.
Church of Iceland: Churchmanship: Evangelical Lutheran: History; Status: Active: Consecrated: 1963: ... Skálholtsdómkirkja) is a Church of Iceland cathedral church ...
Freedom of religion in Iceland is guaranteed by the 64th article of the Constitution of Iceland. However at the same time the 62nd article states that the Evangelical Lutheran Church shall be the national church (þjóðkirkja) [1] and the national curriculum places emphasis on Christian studies.