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Old Lutherans were German Lutherans in the Kingdom of Prussia, especially in the Province of Silesia, who refused to join the Prussian Union of churches in the 1830s and 1840s. Prussia's king, Frederick William III , was determined to unify the Protestant churches, homogenize their liturgy, organization, and architecture.
The unification of the two branches of German Protestantism sparked the Schism of the Old Lutherans. Many Lutherans, called "Old Lutherans", despite imprisonment and military force, [41] chose to leave the established churches and form independent church bodies, or "free churches" while others left for the United States and Australia. A similar ...
The unification of the two branches of German Protestantism sparked the Schism of the Old Lutherans. Many Lutherans, called "Old Lutherans", chose to leave the state churches despite imprisonment and military force. [30] Some formed independent church bodies, or "free churches", at home while others left for the United States, Canada and Australia.
In 1841, the Old Lutherans who had stayed in Prussia convened in a general synod in Breslau and founded the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Prussia, which merged in 1972 with Old Lutheran church bodies in other German states to become today's Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church (German: Selbständige Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche, or SELK ...
Two main confessional movements arose during the 19th century: the Old Lutherans and the Neo-Lutherans. [2] The Old Lutherans originated from the Schism of the Old Lutherans, while Neo-Lutheranism arose in Germany in the 1830s from the Pietist driven Erweckung ("Awakening"). Neo-Lutheranism itself contained differing camps. It gave rise later ...
The Old Apostolic Lutheran Church of America is the nationwide ecclesiastical association, and has member congregations in the following states: Washington, Michigan, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, North Carolina, Delaware, Wyoming, Montana and Wisconsin. The most significant membership is in southwest area of the state of Washington.
Old Lutheran Church or Old Lutheran may refer to: Old Apostolic Lutheran Church, of America; Old Lutheran Parsonage, a historic Lutheran church in Schoharie, Schoharie County, New York; Old Lutherans, German Lutherans in the Kingdom of Prussia; Independent Lutheran Diocese, founded as Old Lutheran Church in America; Klemzig, South Australia# ...
In some areas of Germany, it took decades until the Confessional Lutherans were granted religious freedom. In 1972, most of the Confessional Lutheran Church bodies in West Germany united to form the SELK. In 1991, the East German Evangelisch-Lutherische (altlutherische) Kirche (the Evangelical-Lutheran (Old-Lutheran) Church) joined the SELK.