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However, most North American Lutherans belong to one of the three largest denominations, namely, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod, or the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.
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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Old Apostolic Lutheran Church of America: 1899: 25,000 [298] United States: Orthodox Lutheran Confessional Conference: 2006--[280] United States: Protes'tant Conference: 1927: 1000 [299] United States: United Lutheran Mission Association: 2005--[300] Zambia: Lutheran Evangelical Church in Africa—Zambia Diocese----[301]
The Episcopal consecration of Deodatus; Claude Bassot [] (1580–1630). Apostolic succession is the method whereby the ministry of the Christian Church is considered by some Christian denominations to be derived from the apostles by a continuous succession, which has usually been associated with a claim that the succession is through a series of bishops. [1]
The Lutheran Church–International has an Evangelical Catholic churchmanship and teaches that its clergy are ordained in lines of apostolic succession. [11] The Lutheran Church–International has a threefold ministry of bishops, priests, and deacons.
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.
This group, the largest Lutheran church body in the United States at the time, provided the bulk of the eventual LCA's membership. The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (Suomi Synod), established in 1890. The American Evangelical Lutheran Church, traditionally a Danish-American Lutheran denomination, established in 1872.