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www.elca.org. 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.
www.lcmc.net. Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ (LCMC) is an association of Lutheran congregations located primarily in the United States. It describes itself as an affiliation of autonomous Lutheran churches and not a denomination. [4] It began in 2001 in response to some liberal views of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ...
List of ELCA synods. A map of the nine ELCA regions. Note that the Slovak Zion Synod falls under Region 7 and the Bahamas and the Caribbean under Region 9. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America consists of 65 synods which are configured into nine regional offices. Each of the synods of the ELCA elects one bishop and three synod council ...
The North American Lutheran Church (NALC) is a Lutheran denomination with over 420 congregations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, counting more than 142,000 baptized members. The NALC believes all doctrines should and must be judged by the teaching of the Christian Scriptures (the Bible), in keeping with the historic Lutheran ...
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations. Evangelical Lutheran Conference & Ministerium of North America. Conservative Lutheran Association. Lutheran Ministerium and Synod – USA. Heritage of the Awakening. Apostolic Lutheran Church of America. Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America. Laestadian Lutheran Church. Old Apostolic Lutheran Church.
Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS): Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary (Mankato, Minnesota) North American Lutheran Church (NALC): North American Lutheran Seminary (Ambridge, Pennsylvania): housed at Trinity School for Ministry (Evangelical Anglican) Institute of Lutheran Theology (Brookings, South Dakota): pan-Lutheran.
The synod, like many ELCA synods, is a companion of a non-US Lutheran church. Sierra Pacific's companions are the Taiwan Lutheran Church, the Lutheran Church of Rwanda, and the Salvadoran Lutheran Church. [5] Bishops current and former: Robert W. Mattheis (1994–2002), resigned due to illness [6] David G. Mullen (2002–2008) [7] [6]
The Lutheran liturgical calendar is a listing which details the primary annual festivals and events that are celebrated liturgically by various Lutheran churches. The calendars of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) are from the 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship and the calendar of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) and ...