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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 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.
Presidents, Evangelical Lutheran Synod ; Land provosts and state bishop, Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Eutin (1921–1976) List of Lutheran bishops of Hamar; Bishops of Hamburg, North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church (1977–2008) Bishops of Hamburg-Lübeck, North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church (seat: Hamburg, 2008– to date)
The Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America (ELDoNA) is a confessional Lutheran church body in the United States.There are twenty-eight pastors in the diocese, serving congregations in Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin plus Colombia and the Philippines.
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 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.
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 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]